Category Archives: ActionScript 3.0

IE9 and hidden Flash movies

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Internet Explorer 9 (and Chrome sometimes as well) tries to be a little too smart and do too many things for you. The best example is removing the Flash movie from the DOM when you set its style to:

display: none !important;.

This small gotcha led to some headaches about why JS wasn’t able to call methods (via the ExternalInterface) on my Flash movie. As it turned out this way due to IE9 just completely removing the Flash movie from the DOM.

Flash Player Debugger on Ubuntu

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After having spent a good part of an hour on trying to install the Flash Player Debugger for FireFox on Ubuntu 11 64-bit, I found the following steps worked:

  1. sudo apt-get install nspluginwrapper
  2. copy libflashplayer.so (from debugger download) to /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/
  3. sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
  4. restart FireFox

Thanks to: AskUbuntu.com.

Don’t forget to set up mm.cfg.

When all is done, run:

tail -f ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/Logs/flashlog.txt