What’s Up with Flash Player 10, Doc?
But seriously, where are the docs and compiler support for the new and exciting beta of Flash Player 10? I watched the video, and I looked at what is probably the only Flash 10 SWF on the web from the demo page on Adobe Labs. What else can I do? I couldn’t seem to get the the “Download Source” buttons to work at all, and now I’m getting frustrated! There’s a new Flash Player, and I want to play! I need API docs and a new playerglobal.swc to do it. Let me write some code and run it, damnit!
Yours truly,
Every Flash developer on the planet
UPDATE: Targeting Flash Player 10 Beta with Flex SDK 3.0.x
UPDATE 2: Lee Brimelow made a Video Tutorial on Compiling for Flash Player 10
UPDATE 3: Download the Flash Player 10 API Documentation. Courtesy of Lee Brimelow again.
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I suspect this beta test is more about testing existing content for backwards compatibility as much as it is for playing around with the ‘cool’ new features
Check the Flex 3.0.x Opensource SDK repository. Haven’t tried it, but there has been a bunch of SVN check-in’s to do with the PlayerGlobal and support for Vectors recently.
Let us know if you find something usable. I just don’t have the time.
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Good call, Gareth. I checked it out last night, but couldn’t see anything specific for FP10. This morning I discovered that the 3.0.x branch definitely has a FP10 playerglobal.swc. Playing with it now to see what I can discover.
Got it working! Blog post on the way!
EDIT: Actually, Adobe has some good information on the Open Source site already. Targeting Flash Player 10 Beta with Flex SDK 3.0.x.
I run into the same problems so I created a small api documentation from the latest diff file:
http://dev.dschini.org/astro/api/
Manfred, that’s a nice resource. Thanks for sharing.