I've finally gotten around to changing the name of my Macromedia bookmark to Adobe along with the URL it points to from macromedia.com to adobe.com
So, it's official - Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia is finally complete ;-)
[and now for something completely different...]
I've been mucking about with bezier curves for a clients project, and the movie below illustrates how easy it is to get carried away with programmatic animation. Careful when turning the blur on, it really chews up the CPU!
[kml_flashembed movie="http://blog.wrench.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/bezier tween.swf" height="300" width="480" /]
If anyones got ideas on how to ease the bezier tween , I’m all ears!
Just a quickie to say that my IE version of Flash 8 hasn't auto updated itself yet. I'm guessing it's something to do with the me installing and uninstalling that plugin so many times (using Flash plugin switcher) that it doesn't really know whether it's coming or going anymore. Though I'm sure there's an even better technical reason out there for this behaviour (or lack of it). If anyone can shed any light on why IE's stuck on version 8, I would be interested to hear. I updated Firefox manually to the version 9 player.
I was making a few modifications on a clients Flash 6 AS 1.0 movie yesterday, and can’t believe I spent about 30 minutes debugging what I perceived to be an issue AS 1.0 has with embedding fonts. In actuality, the trouble lied with my ability to take code that I’d copied from an AS 2.0 project and remove any typed variables - totally overlooked this (been in the land of AS 2.0 for too long!) I had created a typed textFormat variable. My bad - but man it was hard to debug, no errors where thrown… the only clue was that when I converted the project to AS 2.0 (and spent 20 minutes recoding various functions) it worked. So this morning I thought I’d get to the bottom of why AS 1.0 doesn’t work with embedded fonts - even though I’ve used them countless times before in AS 1.0 projects.
The moral of the story - always remember where you’ve come from, even if you don’t intend on EVER going back ;-)
It seems that clicking the “About Adobe Flash Player 9…” takes me to a URL that doesn’t exist: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/fl4about
What gives? Surely there’s a redirect from the old Macromedia site to the Adobe one?
Or have a I managed to snag Adobe/Macromedia in the middle of some technology changeover…?
EDIT: Man, I’ve gotta stop doing that - all is well again….
When visiting the standard http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash page I am geting the following displayed in Firefox: Here’s a link to a screen grab
Am assuming it’s something to do with the migration from Flash 8 to 9… is anyone else seeing this too?
EDIT: Everything appears to be back to normal now, though I was seeing that page for well over an hour… I wonder how many users missed out on getting the Flash player during that period?
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