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Eclipse 3.4 code named Ganymede just came out with some new cool features. But I have tested to install both Eclipse 3.4 and the last Flex Builder 3 plug-in from the Adobe website, and they don't work together. Eclipse can't launch Flex editor when needed. So in case you search the Internet for this info like me before, you'll find it here.

I don't know if Adobe will update Flex Builder 3 plug-in to work with Eclipse 3.3 and Eclipse 3.4 or if they will bundle Eclipse 3.4 with the incoming Flex Builder 4. I personally hope that they will update Flex Builder 3 plug-in as soon as possible and launch Flex Builder 4 bundled with Ganymede.

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There is actually some buzz around the 60 frames per second draw rate limit fixed by browsers to Flash player. All the noise cames from the bubblemark benchmark that is intended to compare performances of different plug-ins while playing an animation at the maximum speed they can. The only result we get with this test is there is a limit fixed by browsers to the draw rate of plug-ins. Everybody is agree to said that results of this test are distorted.

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«Working sets» is an underused Flex Navigator functionality that could save you a lot of time when your Flex workspace contains many projects.

As its name says, it allows you to create sets of Flex projects to work on. The magic is that when a «working set» is selected, Flex navigator only shows projects related to this set. You could access all your classes and files in an instant.

It is not as cool as Java navigator filters (implemented in Flex navigator but not working) nor as Eclipse switching workspace that could share the same settings (not implemented yet), but it does its job when needed.

I will show you how to configure the whole thing.

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Two weeks ago Oliver Goldman from Adobe wrote a post where he reveals that the warning about installing an Air application will stay in the next version, even if you choose to publish an application that do not access the user file system.

I personally think that this will tarnish the reputation of Air. I so have asked him in a comment why not display the warning before the application asks to access the file system, while offering at the same time an option to ask to never display this warning again. Surprisingly Oliver reacts to my comment in a second post. All I can say is that he doesn't like the "just in time warning" solution.

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Today the monthly Microsoft updates contains an update that will end the display of the message "Click to activate and use this control" and the surrounding yellow focus rectangle over Flash animations in Internet Explorer.

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The first news of the day is that you can now officially watch videos with a higher quality on YouTube. Not High Definition videos, but videos encoded at higher quality, better bitrate and better resolution.

The second and really good news is that Youtube chooses Flash Player in its last version (at least 9.0.115.0) as video player for its MP4 video format. It will enforce the last Flash player version penetration, and show users that Flash could play as good quality videos than other web players.

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Colin Moock announced on his blog that Richard Galvan, the Flash authoring product-manager, reveals him a new feature in Diesel, the codename for next version of the Flash authoring tool.

The revealed feature is that "the next version of the Flash IDE will be able to export *and* import a new source format called XFL". XFL is a FLA file but written in a ZIP compressed XML file. Even better, Adobe will open the XFL format to let anyone generate or use XFL files to generate SWF files.

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Until now, my blog was only aggregated as a French blog in the the French part of MXNA. As I want to write more English posts in the near future I have hacked a little my wordpress install to generate two RSS feeds, one for French posts and another for English ones. The last week I have registered the English feed of my blog with MXNA. It must now work.

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Since the incoming of Air 1.0 monday, I was unable to install it on my computer at work. I well have removed any previous beta version of the Air runtime, well cleaned "common files" from any Air related folder. But each time I tried to install Air 1.0, a message tells me that the installation failed, nothing else. I have found a solution today.

So here is a little trick for anyone having a problem to install Air 1.0 after removing any previous Air beta version :

1. Use an extract tool like Winrar, Winzip or whatever to extract the files contained in AdobeAIRInstaller.exe to a folder of your choice. The installer is is an SFX ZIP archive.
2. Find and use setup.msi in the extracted files. The install succeed.

It works for me, I hope that it will for you.

MovieStar (Flash Player 9.0.115.0) is officially the last Flash Player release that will be downloaded when public users upgrade to the latest Flash Player version. In the summary of the new features that were added to this release, Adobe announce that developers of the Flash Player have worked to Speed the rendering of vectors, bitmaps, filters and video, including true 1080p video, with new multi-core support that takes advantage of up to 4 CPUs.

I was really interested with this announce. I have so made a really simple Flash animation, all timeline-based with 36 steps that tests rendering with : vector, bitmap, filters, rotation, scale, translation.

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To help me to finish the development process of my FLV Player as soon as possible, I will add here a public URL to download the FLV Player V2 beta:

Download the FLV Player V2 beta.

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With Actionscript 2 projects I have been used to work with classes files organized in a tree structure. Each class can use one or more other classes with the *import* keyword. This is a widespread structure in class-based programming languages (Actionscript, C #, Java, etc...).

So while working with Javascript my first thought was to reproduce this so practical structure. This is why some time ago I create a Javascript file loading system that makes possible to recreate this structure with Javascript when taking my first steps with Ajax. I recently had the occasion to use this project, I wanted to give it to the community.

Go to the full AjaxClassLoader project's page.