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Macromedia Flash 8 allows you to create not only video clips, but also interactive web pages. Thanks to flash technology, beautiful and spectacular graphics are obtained. To play such content, you must use the Flash Player.

According to the tests, the performance of the flash player's macro media is several times higher than that of its competitors. At the same time, the consumption of system resources is reduced, and this is an important point for many programs.

Player features

Work with several types of graphics;
Ability to work with mobile devices;
Bidirectional video broadcast;
Built-in Action Script programming language;
Cross-platform application;
Ability to run SWF files;
3D engine support;
Integration with all popular browsers;
Alpha channel support;
Low resource consumption.

Advantages

Macromedia Flash Player 10 can be installed on any operating system up to Windows 7. It doesn't matter how powerful your computer is. This is due to the fact that the player practically does not consume system resources.

Macromedia Flash can be integrated with the browser. This makes it possible to work with content hosted on Flash sites. It doesn't matter if it's a video or a simple animation.

Another advantage of Macromedia Flash is the support for the 3D engine. Thus, you have the opportunity to run browser games. It is important to ensure that the player is constantly updated. Otherwise, incorrect display of content may occur.

Experts also highlight such a feature as the presence of the AVM2 virtual machine. It understands code written in the ActionScript programming language. Similar innovations appeared in the eighth version. Thanks to this, Flash Player becomes a universal tool.

An application such as Macromedia Flash Player can be downloaded completely free of charge. The installation process will not cause difficulties for users. If desired, the Russian version of the product can be selected. Thanks to this, it will be easier to deal with the player settings.

disadvantages

Despite the fact that the player practically does not consume resources, it is able to exert a load on the central processor. This is due to the inefficiency of the virtual machine.

Another significant disadvantage of flash technologies is the difficulty of their indexing by search engines. Of course, this is not a problem for an ordinary user, but webmasters have to give up such "chips".

Prior to version 10, Flash Player did not support the right-click feature. At the same time, in the settings it is indicated that such a key works. Otherwise, no deficiencies were found.

How to download the player

Unfortunately, at the moment you can't download Macromedia Flash Player. This is because the app has been discontinued. Do not be upset, as the developers are now distributing another flash player.

A modern alternative to Macromedia Flash Player is Adobe Flash Player, which is much more efficient.

It is important to note that adobe flash player can be downloaded for free from the official website located at "www.adobe.com/ru/". If necessary, it is possible to change the display language of the material. To proceed to download the player, you need to go down to the basement, and then click on the "Other products" item.

On the product page, you need to find the "download" block. After that, you need to click on the link "Adobe Flash Player".

The next step will open the download page. Download the product, in accordance with the bitness of the operating system. In most cases, the website automatically detects the OS version. Now it remains only to download the product for windows.

Conclusion

Macromedia Flash Player is designed to play interactive content. Since the application is not currently supported, it is recommended to use an updated version of it. The new product was called Adobe Flash Player. The player is automatically integrated into the browser, so you only need to download and run it.

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This document addresses issues, primarily for Macromedia Flash MX 2004 developers, which are not discussed in the Macromedia Flash MX 2004 documentation or release notes. This document may be updated periodically as more information becomes available.

Macromedia Flash Player compatibility

Backward compatibility of newer versions of Flash Player with older Macromedia Flash file formats is a top priority for each new Flash Player version. One of the methods that Macromedia has used to ensure backward compatibility of Flash Player with Flash files created in older versions of Flash is through beta releases of Flash Player.

Macromedia Flash Player version

Ensure that you have the latest version of Flash Player installed by clicking to check the version. The current version of Flash Player 7 for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux operating systems is 7.0.69.0. The current version of Flash Player 7 for Solaris operating systems is 7.0.67.0.

Features in Macromedia Flash Player 7, Version 7.0.14.0 Windows, Mac OS X, and Macintosh Classic

This release of Macromedia Flash Player includes features for delivering rich content and high-performance media such as video, support for industry standards such as Web Services/SOAP, XML and ECMA standards-compliant programming model as well as improvements to usability and workflow. Flash Player 7.0.14.0 also introduces an enhanced security policy.

The features in Macromedia Flash Player 7 are covered in detail in Flash Help in the Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 authoring environment. Features that developers should be aware of include:

High Performance Media:

ID3 Version 2 Support

ID3 is meta information that is added to MP3 sound files and contains textual information such as the song name, album name and artist name. Most media players such as Winamp and others can display this information. Windows XP Explorer also has native support for ID3 and allows you to display the ID3 information in separate columns. In ActionScript Flash Player 7 will expose text tags.

ID3 V1 support is not touched. It will still be reachable through the old tags. If no IDV1 tag is present in the file Flash Player copies the IDV2 tags into the known IDV1 tag strings to provide backward compatibility.

MovieClip Depth Management

There are two methods added to the Movie Clip Object:

MovieClip.getNextHighestDepth()
MovieClip.getInstanceAtDepth()

MovieClipLoader API

This feature provides listener callbacks that provide notification about the status of files being downloaded into movie clips. Downloading is initiated by the MovieClipLoader.loadClip() command.

Print Job Object

The ActionScript PrintJob class expands upon previously available Flash Player printing features. It allows you to create content at runtime and print this content to multiple pages. The OS print dialog box appears only once and only one print job shows in the operating systems"s list of print jobs.

Small Text Support

This feature improves the legibility and attractiveness of small Flash text. There are no new ActionScript APIs to activate this feature.

Streaming FLV over HTTP

Flash Player 7 supports FLV progressive download (to a user's local drive) and playback without the need for a Flash Communication Server. Both HTTP and local file playback are supported. Control of the FLV is done through the NetStream object which allows you to play, pause, and seek the FLV.

Text Flow Around Images

This feature allows Flash to flow html text around images in a seamless fashion similar to what is available in HTML. This is a runtime-only feature; there is no Authoring component. You should include HTML image tags in your HTML text.

Text Metrics

This feature allows access to additional metrics that allow you to create complex text layouts in ActionScript without using off-screen text fields. To properly align multiple controls so that all the text lines up, this feature allows access to font metrics that allow you to locate the text baseline.

Text Style Sheets (CSS)

The Text Style Sheets feature is an implementation of a small subset of CSS, much like Flash's HTML text fields support a small subset of HTML. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style information such as fonts, colors, and spacing to Web documents.

Enhancements to Flash Player's HTML text field feature, enabling it to associate with a new Style Sheet object that contains named TextFormat objects.
A CSS style sheet loader and parser, which can load style sheets and apply them to text fields through the TextField.StyleSheet class and the TextField.styleSheet property.

Pervasive:

Macromedia Flash Player 7 offers a capability to both notify users about the availability of new versions and install the latest version of Flash Player. The update mechanism is designed to provide Flash Player users with an easy and convenient mechanism to update their software in a timely and convenient manner. With the 7.0.14.0 release, the notification and update mechanism is available for users running on the Microsoft Windows platforms (98/ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP) with Internet Explorer and AOL. With the 7.0.19.0 release, the notification and update mechanism is available for users running on the Microsoft Windows platforms (98/ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP) with Mozilla, Netscape, or Opera. The update capability is available for the web players (when hosted by a browser). The debugging and standalone players do not offer this capability in version 7.0.14.0 or 7.0.19.0.

standard:

ECMA-262 Strict Mode Compliance

Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 content is now case sensitive. This compliance is maintained on a per movie basis. If a strict Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX Professional 2004 movie calls a non-strict Flash 6 movie, the Flash 6 movie will remain non-strict.

virtual root

This feature allows you to force _root to evaluate to the movie clip in which the problem content is loaded, rather than to the real root by creating a new property for the movie clip object, called _lockroot. If _lockroot is set to true on a movie clip, that movie clip acts as _root for anything loaded into it. Any movie clip, and any number of movie clips, may set _lockroot to true. While the primary use is for an aggregator to set this property on a movie clip into which it is loading content, the _lockroot property can be set either by the loading movie or the loaded movie.

Web Services/SOAP Library

This feature includes a library that allows Flash Player to interact with a web service.

secure:

Exact Domain Matching

This feature allows cross-movie scripting only between movies that originated from the exact same domain. Any other cross-movie scripting will only work after calling Policy Files (System.security.allowDomain) to permit access.

Support site or at this DevNet article .

Cross-Domain Policy Files

Policy files are a feature that allows Flash Player to load data directly from any specified trusted domains and URLs.

The changes in the Flash Player 7 security model can occasionally cause undesirable behavior in pre-existing content. Additional information can be located at the Flash Player Support site or at this DevNet article .

HTTP access to HTTPS movies

This feature prevents cross-movie scripting when the calling movie is hosted on a non-HTTPS server and the movie being called is hosted on an HTTPS server. If you can"t host all movies on an HTTPS server, which is the recommended solution, you can permit this kind of cross-movie scripting by calling System.security.allowInsecureDomain to permit access.

Usability & Workflow Improvements:

Array Sorting API Enhancement

We have expanded the array sorting API to support an expanded variety of options for sorting using Array.sort and Array.sortOn.

Custom Context Menu

The ContextMenu and ContextMenuItem classes allos you to customize the context menu. You can add new menu items that trigger ActionScript methods and remove default items as desired.

Exception Handling

This feature adds the ability to catch and handle errors that occur in ActionScript and adds four keywords to the ActionScript language: try, catch, finally and throw.

Hyperlink Context Menu Support

In all players, if the user right-clicks on a link, users will see the Link menu. This menu has two or three items and is not customizable.

Menu Item:	behavior:
open	exactly as if the user had clicked the link
Open in new window (Browsers only)	will always open a new window
copy link	copies of the URL of the link to the clipboard

In the ActiveX Control and all Netscape plug-ins, the following browser-specific keys will open a link ina new window:

Windows ActiveX - Shift-click
Windows Netscape - Control-click
Mac Netscape - Command-click

Mouse Wheel Support

Mouse Wheel support has been added, for Windows only. Mouse wheel support brings two benefits to Flash Player: Flash Player now, by default, scrolls text boxes vertically for all Flash movies (not only version 7 movies); and you can listen for mouse wheel events and respond appropriately.

Runtime Shared Library Improvements

This feature adds support for multi-tier dependent shared libraries. As of Flash Player 6.0.65.0, you can have a shared library that has its own shared library.

Fixes and Improvements in Flash Player 7.0.19.0

Automatic Notification & Update

With the 7.0.19.0 release, users on Netscape and supported Mozilla-based browsers will now be notified when a new version of Flash Player for users running on the Microsoft Windows platforms (98/ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP) is available. The update capability is available for the web players (when hosted by a browser). The debugging and standalone players do not offer this capability in either version 7.0.14.0 or 7.0.19.0 .

Shared Object Security Enhancements

Flash Player now stores persistent shared objects in unpredictable locations. This improves client-side web security.

Flexible Policy File Locations

Flash Player supports a new ActionScript API called System.security.loadPolicyFile. This enables cross-domain policy files to be placed in more flexible locations than was previously possible.

Flash Player uses policy files as a permission mechanism to permit Flash movies to load data from servers other than their own. For more details on policy files, see: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/fplayer_security.html

Flash Player 7.0.14.0 looked for policy files in only one location: /crossdomain.xml on the server to which a data-loading request was being made. For an XMLSocket connection attempt, Flash Player 7.0.14.0 looked for /crossdomain.xml on an HTTP server on port 80 in the subdomain to which the XMLSocket connection attempt was being made. Flash Player 7.0.14.0 (and all earlier players) also restricted XMLSocket connections to ports 1024 and above.

With this release of Flash Player, ActionScript can inform Flash Player of a non-default location for a policy file, using System.security.loadPolicyFile. For example:

System.security.loadPolicyFile("http://foo.com/sub/dir/pf.xml");

This causes Flash Player to retrieve a policy file from the specified URL. Any permissions granted by the policy file at that location will apply to all content at the same level or below in the virtual directory hierarchy of the server. Thus, continuing the above example:

loadVariables("http://foo.com/sub/dir/vars.txt") allowed
loadVariables("http://foo.com/sub/dir/deep/vars2.txt") allowed
loadVariables("http://foo.com/elsewhere/vars3.txt") not allowed

You can load any number of policy files using loadPolicyFile. When considering a request that requires a policy file, Flash Player always waits for the completion of any policy file downloads before denying a request. As a final fallback, if no policy file specified with loadPolicyFile authorizes a request, Flash Player consults the original default location, /crossdomain.xml.

A new syntax allows policy files to be retrieved directly from an XMLSocket server:

System.security.loadPolicyFile("xmlsocket://foo.com:414");

This causes Flash Player to attempt to retrieve a policy file from the specified host and port. Any port may be used, not only ports 1024 and above. Upon establishing a connection with the specified port, Flash Player transmits , terminated by a null byte. An XMLSocket server may be configured to serve both policy files and normal XMLSocket connections over the same port, in which case the server should wait for before transmitting a policy file. A server may also be set up to serve policy files over a separate port from normal connections, in which case it may send a policy file as soon as a connection is established on the dedicated policy file port. The server must send a null byte to terminate a policy file, and may thereafter close the connection; if the server does not close the connection, Flash Player will do so upon receiving the terminating null byte.

A policy file served by an XMLSocket server has the same syntax as any other policy file, except that it must also specify the ports to which access is granted. When a policy file comes from a port lower than 1024, it may grant access to any ports; when a policy file comes from port 1024 or higher, it may only grant access to other ports 1024 and higher. The allowed ports are specified in a "to-ports" attribute in the tag. Single port numbers, port ranges, and wildcards are all allowed. Here is an example XMLSocket policy file:

A policy file obtained from the old default location - /crossdomain.xml on an HTTP server on port 80 - implicitly authorizes access to all ports 1024 and above. There is no way to retrieve a policy file to authorize XMLSocket operations from any other location on an HTTP server; any custom locations for XMLSocket policy files must be on an XMLSocket server.

Because the ability to connect to ports lower than 1024 is new, a policy file loaded with loadPolicyFile is always required to authorize this, even when a movie is connecting to its own subdomain.

Disabling seamless tabbing

This release of ActiveX Flash Player supports a new HTML parameter called SeamlessTabbing. The default value is true; set this parameter to false to disable "seamless tabbing", which allows users to use the Tab key to move keyboard focus out of a Flash movie and into the surrounding HTML (or the browser, if there is nothing focusable in the HTML following the Flash movie). ActiveX Flash Player has supported seamless tabbing since version 7.0.14.0. Disabling seamless tabbing restores the tabbing behavior of Flash Player 6, in which tabbing from the end of the tab order inside a Flash movie wraps the focus back to the first focusable object in the Flash movie. Here is an example of disabling seamless tabbing:

Inline Text Input on Korean Systems

Text entry using the Korean IME on Korean systems can now be performed inline without requiring a separate text entry box.

Mouse Wheel Events (Windows)

Mouse Wheel events can now broadcast to Mouse listeners when movies are published for Flash Player 6 SWFs.

ActionScript Issues Fixed

Performing the Array.sortOn() operation using both "UNIQUE" and "NUMERIC" options results in unsuccessful completion.

Memory Management Issues Fixed

Four changes have been made to optimize memory usage.

Stability Issues Fixed

Six known stability issues have been fixed.

Data Loss or Corruption Issues Fixed

String.split will delete the last element if it begins with the same characters as the delimiter.
Carriage returns don't translate inside Flash (Mac only).
Shared object deletion fails for subdirectories (Mac only).
AMF responses are dropped by the player when making multiple simultaneous requests.

International Issues Fixed

XML incorrectly parses escaped strings.
The debug player can"t display Kanji using standard fonts.
In the Korean IME, the first word typed is duplicated in the lower right portion of the screen.
When Character options include Non-Latin glyphs you can"t enter non-Latin text.
Double-byte data received through web service is corrupted.

Debugging Issues Fixed

"Locals" tab often shows no content even though there are local variables present.

Cosmetic Issues Fixed

Flash Player in various browsers shows incorrect version information.
Flash Player 7 lists duplicate variables from Flash Player 6 movies that differ only by case.

Fixes and Improvements in Flash Player 7.0.24.0: Macintosh OS X Only

Macintosh OS X Plug-in Bundle

With this release, Flash Player takes advantage of Apple's bundling technology and provides the OS X Flash Player plug-in in a bundle, a single directory that contains executable code and resources related to the code. The Flash Player plug-in on OS X has been renamed from "Shockwave Flash NP-PPC" to "Flash Player.plugin."

Fixes and Improvements in Flash Player 7.0.25.0: Linux

Macromedia Flash Player 7.0.25.0 for Linux includes all of the features from Flash Player 7.0.19.0 except for windowless mode.

Macromedia does not officially support specific cameras or sound drivers on the Linux platform. However, we tested Flash Player 7.0.25.0 with Logitech Quickcam Express webcam, Standard Microphone, and Creative Sound Blaster was used.

Issues for Flash Player 7.0.25.0:Linux

User can "t type or delete when cursor is outside of the area of the running SWF.
User can"t type in text field when mouse is over another SWF.
The onKeyDown and onKeyUp event handlers don't work in the Konqueror browser (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75837).
Flash content does not print symbols at less that 100% alpha.
Motion Status remains the same even when motion is demonstrated for the Camera.
The Konqueror sometimes browser asks the user to specify the directory path where the plug-in is located.

Fixes and Improvements in Flash Player 7.0.53.0: Solaris

Macromedia Flash Player 7.0.53.0 for Solaris includes all of the features from Flash Player 7.0.19.0 except for windowless mode. Macromedia does not officially support specific cameras or sound drivers on the Solaris platform.

Issues for Flash Player 7.0.53.0:Solaris

In the Mozilla browser, the Ctrl+N command doesn't work when Flash content is playing.
Text field still show focus when the focus is actually on another object.
Flash does not print vectors ignoring the alpha.
Flash Plugin on Solaris loses audio/video sync.

Fixes and Improvements in Flash Player 7.0.60.0 and 7.0.61.0

Macromedia Flash Player 7.0.60.0 and Macromedia Flash Player 7.0.61.0 include security enhancements described in Security Bulletin MPSB05-07

Fixes and Improvements in Flash Player 7.0.63.0

Macromedia Flash Player 7.0.63.0 includes security enhancements described in Security Bulletin APSB06-03 for operating systems that are not supported by the Flash Player 8 release.

This update introduces additional version checking to the installation process. Because older installers and controls do not contain the new version checking logic, the Flash Player control is locked upon installation. Starting with this update, installers and uninstallers from Adobe are designed to work with this change, and there is no impact to the end-user installation experience. Flash and Flex developers may need to make slight modifications to their normal methods of switching between player versions during testing to account for this change. This is described in TechNote 4da116d3 .

Fixes and Improvements in Flash Player 7.0.66.0 and 7.0.68.0

Adobe Flash Player 7.0.66.0 and 7.0.68.0 include security enhancements described in Security Bulletin APSB06-11 for operating systems that are not supported by the Flash Player 9 release.

Fixes and Improvements in Flash Player 7.0.67.0 and 7.0.69.0

Adobe Flash Player 7.0.67.0 and 7.0.69.0 include security enhancements described in for operating systems that are not supported by the Flash Player 9 release.

Fixes and Improvements in Flash Player 7.0.70.0

Adobe Flash Player 7.0.70.0 includes security enhancements described in for operating systems that are not supported by the Flash Player 9 release.

Fixes and Improvements in Flash Player 7.0.73.0

Adobe Flash Player 7.0.73.0 includes security enhancements described in for operating systems that are not supported by the Flash Player 9 release.

Reporting a bug to the Macromedia Flash Player Team

Found a bug? Please send the detailed bug information via the online Macromedia Software Feature Request and Bug Report form.

Note: Due to the high volume of email we receive, we are unable to respond to every request.

Thank you for using Macromedia Flash Player, and for taking the time to send us your feedback!

Macromedia Flash Player is an application for creating various types of animation: presentations, animated films, interactive applications. Thanks to its thoughtful functionality and wide possibilities, this software is popular with users: according to the latest data, Macromedia Flash Player is used by more than two hundred million users around the world. Macromedia Flash Player can be downloaded for free from this site.

In addition to multimedia animation, the application is used to create flash games and advertising banners. The program is capable of processing vector, raster, 3D graphics. Macromedia Flash Player is designed to create highly complex multimedia scenes with just a few frames to get started.

The latest version of the application differs from previous versions of the program in its speed. Creating flash animation is now much easier: the developers have greatly simplified the work with the application. The application functionality now contains two new modules - Cast and Lite. The FlashCast module is a content distribution platform, while FlashLite is a simplified version of the application designed to work with mobile devices.

When creating an animation, you can apply various effects and tools that allow you to move an object, change its shape, color and size. These tools can be used individually or collectively. With Macromedia Flash Player it is possible to create interactive movies. These movies take up little space and load quickly. The created projects are in most cases saved in SWF format files.