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Astro Sneak Peek

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Attendees at the Adobe MAX conference in Chicago were today shown a sneak peek of some of the new features coming in Flash Player 10 (Codename Astro).

On show was the much anticipated advanced text layout with bi-directional text support (at last), 3d effects (a new ‘z’ axis property on DisplayObjects) and something you can play with right now, support for custom filters and blendmodes.

Custom effects are written in a new image processing language (Codename Hydra). You can play with custom effects right now, by downloading the new Adobe Image Foundation (AIF) Toolkit Technology Preview which was released on labs today.

People have already being releasing source-code for some effects that they have written with the new language, after only a few hours of it being available. Check them out.

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Flash Player 10 Wishlist

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Ted Patrick mentioned recently that Adobe will be showcasing some big new features due in the next release of the Flash Player, codenamed Astro, at MAX in two weeks time.

Since i wont be going to Chicago for MAX, i will be anxiously checking the blogs for news, heres what i am hoping to find:

  1. I want to be able to load any files into the flash player without having to send it to the server first and have access to the raw bytes of the file. IMHO the user has explicitly granted permission to access the contents of the file, by browsing around their file system for it and then clicking the ‘Open’ button, so there are no security issues.
  2. The ability to create a file inside of the player with a bytearray, set its mime-type and use FileReference.download() to have the user put that file onto their filesystem, again without having to send the bytearray to the server-side script.
  3. The usual request for bi-directional text support, both display and input.
  4. The ability to get the sound spectrum of the Microphone input.
  5. DisplayObject quads (similar to quads in Director).
  6. Typed Arrays, gotta be some more speed improvements to be had from these.
  7. Mute context-menu item (banner ads with sound are so annoying!).
  8. Overhaul of the system settings dialog box.
  9. Ability to have sub-menus in the context-menu.
  10. Last but not least, bring the audio feature set of the player up to par with everything else, complete with an api that allows to create and modify sounds at run-time.

*G* Flash Player 8 is so old already!

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Flash Player on the iPhone

Friday, July 6th, 2007

There is alot of hype about the new Apple iPhone simply because it is stylish and it has an iPod, i have an iPod and a phone, should i get rid of them both for this new style icon when it becomes available in the UK? or should i get myself a proper phone like the Nokia N95 which granted doesnt have the same funky intuitive interface but has alot more features and a bigger camera, 3G, Flash Lite and GPS, besides that Apple also forgot to include the Flash Player for Safari.

Apparently though, according to a Wall Street Journal columnist, Apple will be releasing a software update soon.

At launch, the iPhone version of the Safari browser is missing some plug-ins needed for playing common types of Web videos. The most important of these is the plug-in for Adobe’s Flash technology. Apple says it plans to add that plug-in through an early software update, which I am guessing will occur within the next couple of months. However, a separate program included on the iPhone can play a limited selection of videos from YouTube, and the phone can play videos you purchase from Apple’s iTunes store, and certain videos you create yourself.

No Flash Player anytime soon

CNN Reports that Apple CEO Steve Jobs today that “Adobe’s Flash Player Not Suited for the iphone”.

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Flash Plugin Switcher for Firefox

Monday, October 30th, 2006

If, like me and many millions of others, you have deserted Internet Explorer, and now choose to use Firefox as your default web browser, then the following little tool is going to come in very handy. Alessandro Crugnola has written a very useful Flash Plugin Switcher for Firefox that sits in the bottom right hand corner of thr browser and allows you to select and quickly switch between different versions of the Flash Player, from Flash Player 9 all the way back to Flash Player 2. A must have in any Flash Developers toolbox.

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Flash Player 9 Update Beta

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Adobe have just recently released a beta version of an update to Flash Player 9 that adds new Full Screen capabilities to the Flash Player. This feature was primarily introduced into the update so that video players can go fullscreen, but it has lots of other uses aswell.

Full Screen mode is activated using either Actionscript 2 or Actionscript 3 by setting the value of a new property Stage.displayState, it can only be set in response to a mouse or keyboard event, which stops malicious use of this new feature. Keyboard events do not occur when the Flash Player is in full screen mode, so input fields will not work.

More information on fullscreen mode can be found here.

The new player also introduces some much needed displaylist events, namely ADDED_TO_STAGE and REMOVED_FROM_STAGE and the new player now works with Microsoft Vista.

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Flash Player 8.5 = Flash Player 9

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

During the beta stages, even the name of the product can change. Flash Player 8.5 is now Flash Player 9.

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