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Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) is a discontinued cross-platform multimedia runtime used to embed animations, video, and interactive applications into web pages. It has reached the EOL on December 31st, 2020, and Flash content has been fully blocked displaying a static information icon on January 12th, 2021.

According to Adobe, Flash delivered over 75% of online video and the majority of casual gaming in 2010. It was installed on an estimated 99% of internet-connected desktop computers in that year and has been available for Android 2.2 mobile devices since version 10.1, although Flash for Android is no longer updated by Adobe in favor of HTML5 and native applications.

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Google Chrome contains a special version of the Flash Player plugin targeting the Pepper API.

The final stable version of Flash Player for Windows and Mac is 32.0. (version history)

Adobe has annouunced the discontinuation of Flash on July 2017. Flash is no longer available on December 31st, 2020, about three and a half years after the announcement, and all Flash content has been blocked on July 12th, 2021. Third-party projects which emulate Flash are actively being developed, such as Ruffle.

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Chrome 80 POST from Flash: no cookies, Origin null (not cross-site)

Users have started having problems with Flash-based traffic under Chrome 80: Cookies are not being sent with POST requests. I'm aware of the SameSite updates, but our traffic is all same-domain, so I assumed this wouldn't affect us. Debugging the…
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Passing arrays from Flash to PHP

I am having a problem passing an array variable from Flash (AS2) to PHP. In action script I have several arrays defined like this output["px1"] output["px2"] output["px3"] and then I use the following code to pass the variables into a php…
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Layout Managers in Flash?

I'm kind of new to flash and i just can't find a nice way to control the position of the elements that i add to a container movie clip. What i do is addChild to my target container Movie Clip and the control the x,y values of the child depending on…
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zend framework losing session

I am trying to implement a Flash uploader in my Zend framework application but I am having problems with the session. The Flash does not send any cookie headers and this is why the session is lost. I am trying to send the sessionId as a post param…
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Finding a Thinkmap-like engine

I try to find a Thinkmap-like engine on flash to visualize structured data. Does anybody know any free engines?
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Flash AS3 timer question

I have got a timerEvent that adds 25 movieclips to the stage and animates them from x:0,y:0, this all works fine! What i would like to do is assign each movie clip a y value of 25px more than the last movieClip added to the stage. I did a little…
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Using a form in an expandable Flash banner?

Later this year I will be producing a few expandable banners for a company. The banner is used to attract people and have them suggest candidates for a competition. I suggested the option of possibly integrating an application form in the expandable…
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Homing missile in AS3

I'm trying to create a homing missile in AS3. Easy enough when you want it to simply follow a point perfectly - but I'm trying to make the rocket have to turn around if the destination (target) bypasses it. Here's what I've got - it almost works,…
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Flex: Impossible to resize the external loaded SWF's content

I have an application where I try to load an external SWF. So, we have: My application: The Stage's dimensions are 768x1280. ScaleMode = EXACT_FIT. External SWF: It's another application where its stage is: 800x600. ScaleMode = EXACT_FIT. The…
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Flash Site Architecture - one swf vs many?

I'm about to start building a site entirely in flash (per the client's request), using AS3, and was wondering about best practices for doing so in terms of application architecture. The site isn't too large--think homepage, persistent nav, 8…
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Embedding the Flowplayer in OS X

For a site I'm using Flowplayer and the Overlay tool from jQuery Tools, to show video. Within windows everything is fine in the main three browsers: IE7/8/9, Firefox and Chrome. Within OS X (Snow leopard), the problems begin: A click in the video,…
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Javascript library for recording user audio?

This isn't another one of those "How can I record audio in the browser?" questions... I know that the HTML5 Stream API is around the corner and Flash can already access the user's microphone and camera. I'm simply wondering, as a Javascript…
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How to avoid flash.display flickering

Coming from a more 'traditional' C++ background so more used to dealing with low level API's rather than something like the flash.display API. My issue is rather rudimentary, but my searches haven't found a solution. How does one avoid screen…
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I need to ping to an network with flash or actionscript

I have created a network trouble shooting tool in flash. The design will have all the componenets on the screen. I have to ping to every component once in minute. I have finished the design part. Please someone help me how do i ping a webaddress or…
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Is testing for node existence in XML required/recommended in ActionScript 3?

The following is example of reading XML with ActionScript 3 var xml:XML = Hello A Hello B Child C1 Child C2 …
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