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For questions on Adobe's discontinued cross-platform multimedia runtime used to embed animations, video, and interactive applications into web pages. For questions related to memory, use the tag [flash-memory].

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in that year and has been available for Android 2.2 mobile devices since version 10.1, although Flash for Android is no longer updated by Adobe in favor of HTML5 and native applications.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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Embed a browser window within a Flash movie

My question of the day is: in the same way a UIWebView on XCode behaves, is it possible to embed a website or browser window in an Adobe Flash movie? Like an iframe, but within Flash itself. Is this even technically possible? Do I even want to…
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Suppressing the Tool Information in Adobe

I've been searching for a way to prevent the download of a PDF and I finally found one in HTML5. The code is really simple and is The things that suppress the…
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Alternative for getDefinitionByName

In the past, there was a simple trick, to include the flex mxmlc module by adding the following line to the flash-cs4 makefile: -include-libraries “/absolute/path/to/my/assets/assets.swc” This gave you the ability to use getDefinitionByName, an…
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AS3:removing every elements in an array at once using for loop

EDIT: EVERY ANSWER BELOW ARE WORKING, THANKS FOR HELPING ME! I'm currently learn about splicing an array in as3. So here's my code: //import classes import flash.utils.Timer; import flash.events.*; //variables var Arr:Array=new Array(); var…
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Which is the best Flash H.264 HTTP Streaming method?

I'm looking into streaming of prerecorded h.264 videos of HTTP. I'm running into too many firewall problems using RTMP. Are people picking up on the new Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming…
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Running an .exe file from a browser (in any way)

I have got a page which lets me control some devices in a local network. However, some of the advanced settings can be set only using an .exe file which is located on the computer where I run the configuration page. I would like to have all the…
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HaxeFlixel: Overlaying Graphics into Single Sprite

I have code to generate a player avatar spritesheet by pulling each individual body/clothing item and overlaying it in a particular order. Essentially, I'm trying to combine the clothing sheets into a single body by laying them over each other. But…
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Make a Flex/AIR scroller with an HGroup "snap" to each item when scrolling completes

I'm developing an app for ANDROID devices using Flash Builder Burrito and am having trouble figuring out how to accomplish one aspect of my app. I have an HGroup inside of a Scroller. The HGroup has images that are 400px in width and I have the…
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flash as3 - how do I find an object's index in an array

how do you find an object's index / position within an array in flash actionscript 3? I am trying to set a conditional up in a loop where, if an object's id is equal to the current_item variable, I can return its position within the array.
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Flash Builder 4 Security error accessing url Destination: DefaultHTTP

I have built a FB4 application which accesses a .NET web service of a partner company. The app runs just fine in FB4 development environment, but won't work when published to my server. I can not figure out how to get past the following…
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JavaScript: how to dynamically add a Flash file (SWF) to the DOM so IE will load it

I have pages that need to dynamically load content based upon their data description in XML files. Among the items that may be dynamically loaded are SWFs. I have code that correctly loads and starts the movies in Firefox via the http and file…
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bulk rename flash library items with jsfl

version flash cs5 ok so i know the general code to rename all selected library items var items = fl.getDocumentDOM().library.getSelectedItems(); for (var i=0; i
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Flash alternative for FileReader HTML 5 API

I want the content of a local text file to become available inside JavaScript. I've achieved that using HTML 5 FileReader API, but this works only in Mozilla Firefox and Chrome now. I know that it is possible to create a cross-broswer solution using…
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Flash vs HTML5 for Facebook Games - A Business Perspective

I'm in the planning and learning stages of building a facebook game. For the past year my foremost question has been, "Flash or HTML5?". Rather than try to decide the answer to that, I thought I would give the markets for both some more time to…
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How do I pass data between ViewNavigators in Flash Builder 4.5 Burrito

I'm giving it a try and it happens that I'm having a hard time figuring out how to pass data between ViewNavigator in a TabbedMobileApplication.
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