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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in that year and has been available for Android 2.2 mobile devices since version 10.1, although Flash for Android is no longer updated by Adobe in favor of HTML5 and native applications.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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In actionscript, what's the best way to check if a xml node property exists?

If I have some xml like so: What's the best (or accepted) way in actionscript to check if the hasCover attribute exists before writing…
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Flash Builder 4 suddenly stops doing auto-complete for some classes

A project we've been working on for weeks in Flash Builder suddenly has stopped being navigable: all the nice features of Flash Builder like auto-completion, jump to definition, even search for References are only partially working -- they work for…
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What does "install Flash plugin" in WebView mean?

In a small WebView app I wrote, I am able to load YouTube and see the picture the represents a video clip, with the familiar right-pointing arrow that is supposed to start playing the video: But... when I touch that arrow, nothing happens (the…
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FlashDevelop startup problems - problems with plugins

When starting up FlashDevelop version 5.3.3.1 for .NET 4.0 on my Windows 10 system I'm getting these messages: Unable to load an incompatible or broken plugin: C:\Program Files(x86)\FlashDevelop\Plugins\jni4net.n.w32.v20-0.8.4.0.dll and Unable…
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Creating .flv files on the iphone without using ffmpeg

How does one create .flv files on the iPhone? I am aware of ffmpeg (with its LGPL restrictions). But are there other APIs that have been ported to iOS?
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determine is MovieClip playing now

I have movieClip (in as3) and I'd like to know is this movieClip playing now How can I do this?
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jScrollPane Over Video in Safari Resulting in Distorted Text

My site: http://shuttersonthebeach.com My browser/os: Safari 5.0.4 +/Mac The issue: click on either 'calendar' or 'specials' in the masthead of the page. An overlay should reveal. Inside of that overlay there are columns of text w/ custom scroll…
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square bracket before class definition in as3

I've seen the embed tag used before the class definition, but I just saw that Keith is using these.. [Event(name="select", type="flash.events.Event")] [Event(name="close", type="flash.events.Event")] [Event(name="resize",…
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how to debug swf browser crashes

My swf is occasionally crashing the browser (or just crashing the plugin as chrome tells me). How do I diagnose the bug? I am developing for flash player 9 using flex. Things I have tried: Turned on log files so I can see trace("...") output. …
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local Swf bridge to remote Swf to go around flash sandbox

Goal: to make possible to make requests from flash running on local protocol (widget://, file://, chrome-extension://) without any special permissions on www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html Supposed…
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ActionScript 3: How to get host name from URL?

I am trying to set a path to an XML file, which differs when run locally or on server. How do I determine if the Flash is running locally? (I am thinking to check if the URL contains "http://localhost" but how do you get the window URL?) Thanks in…
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Should an animated header be in flash or javascript?

I work at a small website building company and on one of our clients website we have a flash animation in the banner. The animation is rather chunky being 4 megabytes. The client has recently requested a rebuild of the site which would again include…
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Embed RTMP live streaming link to browser

Anyone knows how to embed rtmp link to be viewed in a browser? I already tried Moeya but it is still not running. Anyone knows other solution to how can I embed this to a browser? thanks.
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Setting focus to an swf using JS

How do I set the focus on a SWF embedded in a page using Javascript? I tried to use the usual method but it doesnt seem to work...
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How does Youtube webcam recording work? Other webcam recording solutions?

Which flash server does youtube use for http://www.youtube.com/my_webcam ? Is it just FMS? I'm asking because I have to implement a webcam recording application, and youtube one's the best I've seen so far. Great video quality and perfect audio…
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