Posts Tagged ‘Flash Player’

Thoughts about Adobe’s announcements today

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Adobe announced at the GSMA Mobile World Congress that Flash Player 10 will be available on smartphones running Windows Mobile, Google’s Android, Nokia S60/Symbian, and the new Palm operating systems by early 2010.
What does this mean for Flash and Flex developers? It means that we can finally use the same tools that we use [...]

Stage RESIZE and the stageWidth and stageHeight Bug

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

A while ago, I came across a situation where my Flash application would launch but the stage.stageWidth and stage.stageHeight properties would always return 0 within my document class’s constructor. As I needed to access those properties at runtime and I did not want to hardcode those values to a pair of variables, it drove me [...]

Flash Player 9 H.264 Support

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Adobe announced H.264 support in the latest update of Flash Player 9, officially sparking off speculations of impending iPhone support for Flash (alas!). More details can be found in Adobe’s press announcement.
Download the latest Flash Player update and check out this sample video which my friend Colin has kindly uploaded.

Flash Player 9 debug and Flash Tracer

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Adobe finally released a version of the debug Flash Player that works on the Intel Macs. Here’s how you can use the debugger with Sephiroth’s Flash Tracer plugin for Firefox to view your trace outputs in Firefox.