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I’m a little late getting to this news as I have had a horrible case of tonsillitis this week. But I’m excited to announce that we have released the second public beta of Flash Player 10. This release has a number of interesting additions to it. Before going into details, just a reminder that this is still a beta product and features may added or removed at any time. Ok now to the new features. |
This is one that I need to find out exactly what has changed. In the first beta you could dynamically generate audio using the new samples callback function. You can check out the tutorial that I did at gotoAndLearn() for more information on this. I will update this as soon as I know more.
Limited Fullscreen Keyboard Access
This is a huge one for those of you who want to make fullscreen games! You can now receive key events for non-printing keys such as arrows, shift, enter, tab, space, etc.
Loader.unloadAndStop
This new loader method will make garbage collecting SWF files much easier. Grant Skinner has written about the issues extensively and the Player team has listened. This new method adds unload functionality similar to the unload behavior in ActionScript 2.0. After calling unloadAndStop on loaded content it will be immediately removed stopping all audio, removing eventListeners, and becoming inaccessible through ActionScript.
Video4Linux v2 Support
Support for the Video4Linux v2 (V4L2) camera API has been added. I’m not sure what that is, but if you’re on Linux you probably do.
Linux WMODE
Flash Player for Linux now supports windowless mode (transparent and opaque). Windowless mode means proper blending between SWFs and the HTML above and below the SWF content. Windowless mode on Linux requires the latest Firefox 3 to work.
Make sure to go over and read the full release notes including bug fixes that made it into this release. The Flash Player is doing an amazing job at listening to the community and giving you the features you want. Congratulations to the team!
Lee
Hi Lee,
Thanks for the news!
Is there a content debugger version of Flash Player 10 available?
Wow that is wonderfull nows lee thanks. I just might as well give it a try .. Happy flash hacking !!
The bug with WMODE under firefox on Windows will be fixed too ?
[quote]Loader.unloadAndStop[/quote]
Nice!
Two things from your list made my day today: fullscreen keys and linux wmode. Great! Thanks!
aik! tonsillitis hurts
…get well soon !!
…oh and get yourself some ice cream as compensation *g*
cheers
carrrramba
Do you know if Flash 10 will work better with Firefox and SSL sites that employ client certificate authentication? In Flash 9 and earlier, SWFs that try to POST to sites requiring client certs fail, at least on Firefox. On MSIE7, the same thing works just fine. (And in both FF and IE, regular browser access to the site works as well.)
Just wondering if version 10 might fix this, or if it’s even a known issue at Adobe?
Get well soon Lee!
Thanks for the awesome news! Full screen with keyboard access FTW!!
>>Limited Fullscreen Keyboard Access
Yeaah! It roax! But I still don’t understand why alphabetical letters will be desactivated again… I think it’s a security issue, but which one?
Anyway, great news Mr Brimelow
Wow great news to start my week (Saturday is the starting day here )
Will Limited Fullscreen Keyboard Access supports the mysterious “Print Screen” Butoon ?
Hi Lee,
Thanks for the news!
Wow, this might be the worst version ever!
Never had so many ‘Operation could not be completed. (WebKitErrorDo…’ errors (can’t read any more of it) when loading assets…
Will first try a workaround by loading the assets differently before reporting an error, but I have also an issue with the stylesheet not wanting to load, which all worked fine in beta 1 and FP 8/9.
Any ideas on why objects with rotationY and .z properties don’t show up anymore?
Loader.unloadAndStop
Has to be the most practical feature yet. About time!
Awesome.
I’d like to echo Mohammed Al-Asmar’s question about the Print Screen button – how does that work – does it do the screenshot or could you hook into it and have some Flash print dialogs coming up?
Interested to see what’s new in the Extended Audio API too!
Its good to hear that Adobe are keep updating their product to good but I was wandering would CS4 flash have possibility to add and move 3D objects, where we’ll compile our flash movies in flash 10…
I think all of us frequently work with 3D objects and it would be a great usability.
What I don’t get is why Adobe will allow you to save files to their hard drive, read files from their hard drive, access their webcam/microphone but NOT complete fullscreen keyboard
Why can’t they just ask for permission for that?
I just posted a helpful little update to Lee’s ‘Dynamic Sound’ tutorial that will work with the FP10 beta 2 update:
http://flexgraphix.com/blog/?p=43
Enjoy!
i hope more and more flash and director game developers switch over to unity and other propperly evolving and current age reached technologies so that Adobe is forced to propperly advance flash instead of hyping such ricidulous small step improvements.
ERROR: Your architecture, \’x86_64\’, is not supported by the
Adobe Flash Player installer.
Someone remind me: what year is this again?
I’m having a little trouble compiling a few things for the new beta – apart from downloading the latest nightly build of the Flex SDK is there anything else I need to be doing to compile for beta 2?
Jassa
[quote]Is there a content debugger version of Flash Player 10 available?[/quote]
The debugger version is available from flashtester.org
Adobe’s Flash Player 10 is the worst ever.The playback on video sites is unreliable at best and most uploaders that are flash based wont work at all.I contacted Adobe about this and their attitude was this is no problem.Owners of websites now have to find a workaround to get the upload forms to work.This is pathetic.
pleasepermit download for flash videos