Flash Player has been updated to version 9,0,45,0 and is available for download at the usual location.

This update is NOT required unless you are experiencing issues pointed out in Flash Player’s release notes and it is targeted only for Adobe Creative Suite 3 users.

This update is only for Windows and Macintosh platforms. Linux version of the player has not been updated and remains at 9,0,31,0.

The following issues will appear in previous versions of Flash Player 9 when viewing content created with Flash CS3 Professional:

• New ActionScript 3.0 components for Flash CS3 Professional do not function correctly in versions prior to Flash Player 9.0.45.0.
• Runtime Shared Libraries (RSLs) exported for ActionScript 3.0 generate a runtime security error. (195395)
• Display objects instantiated by the playhead entering a frame because of a gotoAndStop command (or similar action) incorrectly process actions on frame one. (189490)
• flash.text.TextField.getCharBoundaries returns a rectangle that is offset to the left by 2 pixels for fields that are created using the Flash CS3 Professional text tool. (193249)

Visit this site to check if you have the latest version of the player.
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Yesterday I received a comment from Ian Stokes. He was asking for the easiest way to convert an existing AS3 project into Apollo Application, this is indeed something a lot of people are missing in Apollo examples so I wrote this short step-by-step tutorial that should clear things out.

Using Flex Builder 2:

• File > New > Apollo Project
• Select “Basic”, click “Next”
• Enter project name (and location if needed), click “Finish”
• Using the navigator panel (Window > Project Navigator) delete the “[your_apollo_name].mxml” and “[your_apollo_name]-app.xml” file from the newly created Apollo project.
• Using the navigator panel select the contents of an existing AS3 project and select copy from the right click menu, and paste them into Apollo project folder
• Confirm any overwrites in the popup dialog.
• Right click on the “[your_application_name].as” file that was pasted into Apollo project folder, and select “Set as Default Application”.
• In the popup window – enter the requested meta information, and click “Finish”. A new file “[your_aplication_name]-app.xml” has been created.
• Run the Apollo application

That’s it, hope it made things a bit more clear! And if you have any interesting questions, feel free to shoot them into the comments section anywhere in the site.

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Hey,

Another update to the blog. This time two new Actionscript 3 classes:

• AS3 Easing – lets you do dynamic point-to-point property tweening.
• AS3 Embeded – an easy way to embed image assets into your AS3 project

You can find them in the Codex
Enjoy!

Codex is live – it will be the central location for all free AS3 (and maybe AS4, who knows) classes in the future.

Also in the news, Application and Codex pages now feature a discussion tab so you can leave a message to your fellow coders

I am also looking for feedback / feature requests from the community. This blog should be more a resource than a news post, so if you something that could be a useful addition to this Apollo / Flash resource blog – please let me know.

The AS3 Global Object was also updated with a critical patch, if you downloaded the previous version and it failed to initialize, please update to the latest version.

Check out Codex here

One more addition to the blog, this time it’s something many of you I hope will find very handy.

Check out the AS3 Global Object.

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I am glad to announce that Application section of this site is live!

I have uploaded the first Apollo application for you to play with, check it out here.

Also in the news – I will be updating the site heavily during the upcoming days, so if you see some kind of PHP error popping out, just wait couple of seconds and hit refresh.

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Hey,

My name is Paulius Uza, and this is my personal space where I will share my thoughts on user interface design and interactive web and desktop applications. I plan to focus mostly on Adobe’s Flash Player and Apollo desktop runtime (codename) and also to provide source code, sample applications and some downloadable goodies.

Some of the resources will be available for a small fee to keep this site alive, but I will try to make most of them free and possibly under commercially friendly licenses.

I look forward hearing from you in the comments,
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