Flash Player

Flex “Hero” public preview is out

You can read more about it on Adobe Flex Team blog : Public Preview Releases of Flex SDK, Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst available for download

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How to upgrade Flash Player without Installing Adobe DLM

If you want to upgrade your Flash Player on Firefox, Adobe wants you to install their download manager first. It just doesn’t work on my computer so I had to find another way. It is pretty simple to manually install the latest flash player but not really easy to find on Adobe site, so I post the direct link here for those who need it. Flash Player...

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Flash Player 64-bit “Square” beta

Flash Player 64-bit “Square” beta

The 64-bit version of Flash Player is finally out in its beta version. GET Flash Player 64-bit “Square” The final version should be out in 2011.

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Scaleform brings Flash to games – 3D Interface (3Di)

This is some really impressive stuff, Flash 3D replaces native user interface in Unreal Tournament 3 game. Visit their site for more information : http://www.scaleform.com/ Enjoy.

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Preloader deep linking bug still not resolved

If you try to implement the deep linking for flash/flex using SWFAddress or similar technology, you will notice the “#” character (anchor) somewhere in the URL, this is the delimiter for the interpreted URL string by the browser. If the string following the anchor change in the address bar, the browser will not change (nor refresh) the currently displayed page, instead it will try to...

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Understanding the Flex Event propagation

Everybody knows that ActionScript is an event based language and that dispatching and listening events are the base of Flex development, so I’ll not emphasize it here. I will talk about something else, something more intriguing: event propagation. Most components communicate with others using events which conveys useful informations and data but only visual components (objects in the...

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