I’ve been with Flash for fifteen years. As a kid, my first encounter with Adobe was Photoshop and ImageReady. Later, Macromedia was acquired by Adobe, the web trio got the Adobe prefix, and only th...

Symptoms: Our project needed the ANE QR code scanning feature. After writing it in XCode with ZBarSDK and publishing it as an ANE, packing it into an IPA with adt threw this error: Packaging failed! Packaging error message: Compilation failed while executing : ld64 Packaging output: ld: warning: ignoring file /var/folders/l5/kql7svqx5j93vwg65tj3pt_c0000gn/T/8e0d5504-ffea-41da-a45b-22cfe260a197/libcn.flashj.ane.ios.QRScan.a, file was built for archive which is not the architecture being linked (armv7): /var/folders/l5/kql7svqx5j93vwg65tj3pt_c0000gn/T/8e0d5504-ffea-41da-a45b-22cfe260a197/libcn.flashj.ane.ios.QRScan.a Undefined symbols for architecture armv7: “_QRScanExtInitializer”, referenced from: _g_com_adobe_air_fre_fmap in extensionglue.o (maybe you meant: _QRScanExtInitializer_name) “_QRScanExtFinalizer”, referenced from: _g_com_adobe_air_fre_fmap in extensionglue.o (maybe you meant: _QRScanExtFinalizer_name) ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture armv7

Known Issues with Adobe products on Mac OS 10.7 Lion : http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/905/cpsid_90508.html I’m on CS5.5, so it’s not that big a deal for me. The main problem is Flash Player, which is a b...

This article was reposted here after I saw it on http://riaoo.com/?p=1658; the original content comes from http://blogs.adobe.com/xwlin/2010/04/flash_player_101_-_adobe_max_2009.html and http://blogs.adobe.com/xwlin/2010/04/flash_player_101_-_adobe_max_2009_1.html Speaker: Lee Thomason (lthomaso@adobe.com) Translator: Lin Xiaowei (xwlin@adobe.com) PrefaceTime: the 21st of this month. Location: Beijing International Convention Center. Adobe is about to hold a two-day Flash Platform technology summit. I’ll have the honor of joining Ely Greenfield as co-speaker for the <> session, handling both the speaking and the translation. Ely Greenfield is a Senior Principal Scientist in the Apollo Integrated Runtime group, and he gave a superb talk on this topic at Adobe MAX 2007. I googled up a comment from a guy who attended the 2007 MAX conference about Ely himself and his talk: “I think Ely’s topic (Flash Player Internals) was the best of all the topics at MAX…” “Ely is that legendary guy who wrote most of the Flex Charting Framework in three days with his eyes closed”… The 2009 Adobe MAX still has a Flash Player Internals session, but the speaker is Lee Thomason (another hardcore veteran — Flash Player architect, nicknamed Player Guy, said to be the number one Flash Player guy). This is a very in-depth topic, and the talk moves fast: in one hour he covers as many aspects of the player architecture as he possibly can. Here I’ve summarized and translated the gist of his talk for your reference.

Topic: Adobe Platform Technology Summit Date: April 21–22, 2010 Location: 2nd Floor, Beijing International Convention Center Way down south, so I won’t be there in person. But watching online is ju...

“Adobe CS5 Master Collection (Official Win_Mac Release)” (Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection) CS5 [disc image]: http://www.verycd.com/topics/2814048 Also, “Adobe Production Premium Suite” (Adobe.Creative.Suite.5.Production.Premium) CS5 [archive] http://www.verycd.com/topics/2818598/ 51AS’s CS5 download page: http://www.51as.com/as3/as3-268.html This post is a personal collection and will be updated over time. ps: Piracy hurts the industry — free resources should only be used for testing and learning.

Once upon a time there were two little kids, one named Guoguo and one named Zhuanzhuan. Because of an RP problem, Guoguo had been bitten by a wild dog when he was little, so there was a chunk missing from his face. Zhuanzhuan had been multi-talented since he was small, and since his foundation was rock solid, he lived up to the name “Zhuanzhuan.” Guoguo and Zhuanzhuan went to school together as kids and grew up together. Time flew by, and both Guoguo and Zhuanzhuan grew up. Because of his RP problem, even though his body grew up, the missing chunk of flesh was still gaping right there. By sheer chance, Zhuanzhuan ran into a talented woman named MM.

This article is reprinted from http://theflashblog.com/?p=1888 [Adobe would like me to make it clear that the opinions below are not the official views of the company and are entirely my own.] By now you have surely heard about the new iPhone 4.0 SDK language that appears to make creating applications in any non-Apple-approved languages a violation of terms. Obviously Adobe is looking into this wording carefully so I will not comment any further until there is an official conclusion. [Sentence regarding Apple’s intentions redacted at request from Adobe]. This has nothing to do whatsoever with bringing the Flash player to Apple’s devices. That is a separate discussion entirely. What they are saying is that they won’t allow applications onto their marketplace solely because of what language was originally used to create them. This is a frightening move that has no rational defense other than wanting tyrannical control over developers and more importantly, wanting to use developers as pawns in their crusade against Adobe. This does not just affect Adobe but also other technologies like Unity3D.

This article gives us a bit of insider gossip about Flash CS5. There are a few typos in it, and for someone whose English isn’t up to much, like me, it was enough to bring tears to your eyes. A few things I paid attention to: Adoption rateLooking at the current state of the Flash platform, FlashPlayer10 installs are still climbing, and the new figures are expected to reach over 90% coverage in the near term. Flash CS5 featuresThe biggest news for developers is that Flash authoring is finally integrated with FlashBuilder. If you’re using Flash CS5, you can export a new FlashBuilder project through a new export dialog.

Yesterday morning, AIR auto-updated and installed itself in Chinese~ At the time I had no idea AIR 1.1 was released that very day. So exciting. Adobe AIR lets you keep your favorite web apps with y...