Have you ever run your swf in other window? If so, you might have experienced the same troubles as we did in our Virtual elections
Facebook application. All the problems arose from the seemingly unimportant decision – as we needed to pop up Facebook dialogs (such as Invite Friends or Publish to Wall) over the Flash movie, we decided to switch the swf’s
wmode parameter to opaque. While testing the application, we then came across the following two (and pretty annoying) bugs…
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When working on our avatar project, I recently faced a tricky problem: since we use some Flash Player 10 features (such as PixelBender filters), we had to target our swf to Flash Player 10. On the other hand, we still do not want to force our users to install Flash Player 10. The decision was obvious: to make our application backward compatible – wherever we use a FP10 feature, we would also provide a simplified FP9 workaround …
When developing graphic intensive applications, many Flash developers combine the two main Flash Platform building tools – Flash Pro and Flex Builder. As the artwork or animations reach a certain level of complexity, it’s usually more efficient and flexible to prepare the visual assets in Flash rather than writing them in ActionScript using the drawing API or a tweening library …