Stratus is an Adobe technology up on labs that allows for Flash Player 10 and AIR 1.5 RTMFP real time communication connections. The most important features of RTMFP include low latency, end-to-end peering capability, security and scalability. As part of the labs release there are an article and sample application. Article 1 Stratus Sample Application The Stratus Sample Application source files come with a cgi script for registering...

More things are heating up around the Open Screen Project. At CTIA Wireless conference Adobe Systems Incorporated and Texas Instruments Incorporated announced a technology collaboration to optimize Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe AIR® for the TI’s OMAPâ„¢ mobile applications platform. This has always been one of my personal favorite areas Adobe is now more fully engaged in. Getting the Flash platform on devices, not just...

I came across a scenario that I wanted an AIR app to have a background color set while systemChrome=”true” but showFlexChrome=”false”. Here is another post describing the problem. I tried to figure out what was going on and how the green-greyish background shows up (or white background in Flex 4) but couldn’t figure out where that is created. But I did notice that when showFlexChrome=”false” that the...

So the updated is finally here. The fullscreen on hulu.com is working, but its a little choppy on the FPS. The fullscreen doesn’t fill up my 1080p screen like watching fullscreen hulu on my PC. YouTube’s fullscreen that was in a page was interesting. It worked but the quality was lacking. Other cool feature support was my friend says he was watching hulu movies on his PSP with remote play. Either way this is good progress for the...

I was reading about some updates for the PS3 and notice mention about full screen flash. I was thinking that wasn’t possible unless they had Flash Player 9, previously the PS3 only had Flash Player 7. The details on the web are all fuzzy and I couldn’t tell what it really meant. But either way I power up the PS3 and in the browser went to: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about On that page it shows that the Flash Player...

The solution to accessing the loader information url property is quite easy in Flash ActionScript 3. But when you Google for the solution its not obvious. Hence I am creating a post about it. In Flex you can access the url of the SWF by accessing Application.application.url. What this value represents is the root.loaderInfo.url property. So in Flash and AS3 you would do this: var tf:TextField = new TextField(); tf.autoSize =...