FMS 2.0.4 Updater

The FMS team just released an updater to the 2.x server. The update fixes a few bugs, many relating to on2 streams. You can get the update here: http://www.adobe.com/support/flashmediaserver/downloads_updaters.html Here are the release notes: http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flashmediaserver/204/releasenotes.html A big thanks for the FMS developers and their hard...

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Flex 2 king of RIA Platforms (InfoWorld 2007)

Flex 2 has won the prized spot for best Rich Internet Application platform in InfoWorld’s 2007 Technology of the Year Award: App Dev category. Adobe Flex 2.0 Adobe Flex 2.0 constitutes a big leap forward for this RIA platform, thanks to a new Eclipse-based IDE for drag-and-drop layout and code management, and a separate data services application for server-side messaging and data integration. Easy connections for Web services and Java...

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Flash Debug Player 9.0.28.0 and ExternalInterface

I have a very basic Flex application loading a Flash 8 SWF that communicate to each other through ExternalInterface. I run the application through Flex Builder 2.0.1, when I run it normally the code works. But when I run it in debug mode so the Flex application is running in the debug player the ExternalInterface does not work any more. Anyone else run across this problem? is it a known issue/bug?

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Wrong installer Flex Builder 2.0.1 Errors

With all the blog posts about the arrival of the Flex 2.0.1 update there can be some confusion about where the correct installer is. The main crux of it is that if you have Flex 2 products installed (Flex Builder, Flex Data Services, etc…) you want to get a updater download, and if you are new to Flex the main installers will be Flex 2.0.1 from here on out. Well, for the heck of it I installed a new full Flex Builder 2.0.1 over my Flex...

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Posting from Playstation 3 on Yellow Dog Linux 5.0

To bad there is not a Flash Player 9 for Linux PowerPC distros or I would be coding Flex right now. So I am writing this post on my Playstation 3 using Yellow Dog linux 5.0 (the free version was just released today) as the “Other OS” on the box. The installation process was not that terrible hard. I was not able to install the Flash Player 7 or 9, and am not sure there is any Linux PowerPC Flash Players out there, any one know? I...

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Create Component Instance from Class Name

To promote the newly released Flex Cookbook I am posting here with the title of my lastest Flex Cookbook post. You can find the solution to below question by clicking on the text itself: How do you create a instance of a component at runtime with only the class name? what about when the class name is dynamic it self? Go and post samples, rate posts, or add comments and help make the Flex Cookbook a very good hub of...

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