Category Archives: Flex

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

Alchemy on Windows7

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Installing Adobe Alchemy on Windows7 wasn’t as straightforward as the Adobe Labs site made me believe.

The following error would keep on showing when I tried to run the example:

$ gcc stringecho.c -O3 -Wall -swc -o stringecho.swc
llvm-gcc.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ? …

I finally got it to work by using the steps below:

  1. Install the Alchemy Repack, from www.covergraph.com in a temporary directory (I just want to copy some of the files).
  2. Download and install Alchemy from the Adobe website, as per their instructions.
  3. Copy the “achacks”, “avm2-libc”, “bin” and “flashlibs” folders from your “Alchemy Repack” installation folder.
  4. Uninstall / Delete Alchemy Repack
  5. Good to go! 🙂
  6. (Optional:) Set the “CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning” environment variable option to avoid Cygwin warnings about MS-Dos style paths. (Unfortunately, this doesn’t work for me, even though “echo ${CYGWIN}” prints “nodosfilewarning”.)

Note: If you already have Cygwin installed, you can install additional packages by running setup.exe again.

Sound from ByteArray

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While writing a quick test application to record microphone input and playing that same recording, I found out that playing back a ByteArray directly using the Sound class wasn’t possible. Luckily a solution is never far away when doing a Google search and it turns out that FlexibleFactory has a good solution: the MP3FileReferenceLoader lib. With a bit of tweaking you can pass in a ByteArray directly and don’t need to rely on a FileReference.

Good news though! As per Flash Player 11, the following 2 methods have been added to the (native) Sound class that can be used to achieve the same behaviour:

  • Sound.loadCompressedDataFromByteArray(bytes:ByteArray, bytesLength:uint)
  • Sound.loadPCMFromByteArray(bytes:ByteArray, samples:uint, format:String = “float”, stereo:Boolean = true, sampleRate:Number = 44100.0)