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Flash Player 8 Public Beta

Alessandro Crugnola actionscript ,

Released the Flash Player 8 public beta.
It’s a pre-release version of “the next major release of Flash Player. It is being made available for developers and consumers to test their content to ensure existing content plays back correctly and that there are no compatibility issues.”
As usual there’s also the bug reporting form:
http://www.macromedia.com/go/fp_public_beta_feedback

http://www.macromedia.com/../public_beta

SEPY for OSX 10.4

Alessandro Crugnola SEPY , , ,

SEPY ActionScript Editor running on TigerWorking on my new mac mini I finally managed to get sepy run for OSX (actually i made an installer for OSX 10.4).
I have fix the major platform related bugs, there are still some issues (such as mainmenu disappearing sometimes, import/export features), but on my first test it seems quite stable. Download it from sourceforge here: http://sourceforge.net/…&release_id=340616

I’ve also put a new testing Windows version here: http://sourceforge.net/project/…&release_id=340550

AMFPHP 1.0 milestone 2 alpha

Alessandro Crugnola amfphp , , , , , , , ,

Today Patrick released a new milestone of amfphp: Chnages in this alpha release:

  • Added new methodTable option (per method) “fastArray” => true|false for fast array serializing on return (will only make a difference for large multidimensional nested voodoo arrays)
  • Added new method Headers::getHeader($key) available from all services, also HeadersFilter.php added
  • Added FrontBase support
  • Added Pear::db support
  • Added CSV-based recordsets support
  • Renamed sql folder to adapters to fit with the CSV recordsets
  • Various bugfixes for PHP4 MethodTable class
  • Major overhaul of service browser, should work much better now
  • New actionscript template system for service browser, see browser/templates/ for examples
  • Added new return type binary that will write the value as a string but without charsetHandling
  • Added new return type raw that will write to the output stream directly (careful)
  • SSL with ie hopefully works now

Some new methods included recently, which you can use in the gateway.php file (for production env): – disableStandalonePlayer() Disables the standalone player by filtering out its User-Agent string – disableServiceDescription() Disable service description from Macromedia’s service browser – disableTrace() Disables remote tracing – disableDebug() Stops debug info from being sent (independant of remote trace setting)

amfphp project page

Flash/Javascript Integration Kit

Alessandro Crugnola actionscript ,

As just read on the Mike Chambers blog, here the link to the beta release of the Flash/Javascript Integration Kit (How can i miss it?!?)
It works on these browsers/OS:
* Windows IE 6.0
* Windows Firefox 1.0
* Windows Opera 8.0
* Macintosh Opera 8.0
* Macintosh Firefox 1.0
* Safari 1.2.4 and 2.0
* Linux Firefox 1.0.4

and it can be possible to communicate passing complex object data type such as:
* objects
* arrays
* strings
* numbers
* dates
* booleans
* nulls
* undefined

In the installation page there’s also an example of the usage in flash:

import com.macromedia.javascript.JavaScriptProxy; 
var proxy:JavaScriptProxy = new JavaScriptProxy(); 
proxy.call("javaScriptMethodName", "arg1", new Object());

See docs here: http://www.osflash.org and http://weblogs.macromedia.com/flashjavascript/readme.html

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/flashjavascript/

Flash Platform Announcement

Alessandro Crugnola actionscript ,

This morning Macromedia made several press announcements regarding the Flash Platform, Flash Player, Macromedia’s support of the Eclipse Foundation, and an upcoming toolset for Flex development, code-named Zorn.

http://www.macromedia.com/go/platform