Check out Adobe Labs to download Flash Player 10 beta, take the new demos for a spin, and watch videos about the new features.
The key features for Flash Player 10 beta include:
- 3D Effects – transform any display object in 3D with easy to use ActionScript APIs while retaining full interactivity.
- Custom Filters and Effects – In addition to the native filters in Flash Player you can also make your own using Adobe Pixel Bender. These filters, blend modes and fills can be scripted and animated using ActionScript.
- New Text Engine – Bi-directional text, vertical layout, styeable device fonts are all part of the capabilities of the new text engine. In addition, this generic engine will power a new set of text components with really mazing typographic and layout functionality.
- Visual Performance – through two new wmode settings you will be able to take advantage of the video card to speed up rendering and blitting.
- Vector – A new ECMAScript 4 data type that is very much like an array but only accepts one type. By knowing what type will be stored in the array access performanc is dramatically faster.
- Runtime FileReference access – With Flash Player 10 beta you can open a file dialog box to ask a user to select a file and load it into the runtime. You can also save content from the runtime to the desktop.
There is a lot more in this release, and I look forward to posting more about it soon!
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Except, it’s not there. I guess that’s the price you pay for being on the bleeding edge of someone’s RSS feed.
@Michael – the correct link is http://www.adobe.com/go/astro.
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download source dont work due crossdomains.xml problems at adobe.com downloads section
hey dude,
I downloaded the player for FF. Went to the demo, clicked on each link in order, played with 3d toggle, then clicked on IK: Froze up on me.
IK froze on me as well.
J
ok its the Native 3d sample.
Once you click on that and play with the sliders all the buttons break.
The “download source” button doesn’t actually download anything for me, is it working for anyone else?
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IK froze on me too, I refreshed and it worked okay.
Congrats to you and the team Justin. The local access to Files is definitely a killer! And the inverse kinematics, and the multicolumn text, and the 3D(2.5D, as u guys like calling it) support and the graphics rendering improvements and the..
*applause*
wow, so many new features. and all i wanted was MouseWheel support on Macs.
life in software is funny like that.
Hi
great news !
but, it didn’t solve all the transparency and right to left (hebrew) text issue that i get in MANY sites.
do those sites need to compile new code ? for these issues to be solved ?
(i am using seevral linux distros with FF3b + FP10b)
Why do we suddenly need to download an uninstaller first to get rid of the old player? Isn’t that going to slow the spread of the latest versions?
Also…why is the OS X uninstaller 39 Mb and the Win uninstaller only 33K?!
This still doesn’t support if the font size is bigger then 127px, I have this flex application compile on the Flex 3 and run on Adobe Flash 10 beta, they still look the same as if I compile on flash 9, somehow the font size is limited to only displaying up to 127 size, and wont display the size bigger then 127, without having to rescale the whole text. this limitation is coming from the flash.text please remove this limitation on the next release.
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