Flash Player 8 - new stuff
July 12th, 2005As most of you probably already know, Flash Player 8 beta is out. Following the old tradition that (most) features work in new players with swf's exported with old authorings here is one feature example.
Transparent png/gif and progressive jpg loading.
Strangely it only works with loadMovieNum. It doesn't work with clip and loadMovie.
Here is the fla and rest of the files, try it yourself.
Posting features as we find them. 
*** EDIT ***
After some thinking, we tried to change version of the swf in the header of the file. So with the help of the hex editor we changed third bit to 08. Now movieClip loading is working.
July 12th, 2005 at 9:18 am
Oh… assetpropflags doesn’t work
July 12th, 2005 at 9:59 am
wow! so they included both png and gif support!
July 12th, 2005 at 10:50 am
No animated gif though.
July 12th, 2005 at 12:36 pm
8 player secret words )
1. Progressive JPG, GIF and 24Bit PNG with transparency loading support (tested by Shock) URL ASSetPropFlags not work, so everyone trying to find another way to check what new. below some interested stuff already founded ) LOL antiAliasType filters gri…
July 12th, 2005 at 6:34 pm
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July 13th, 2005 at 5:49 am
So I guess we will need to wait for next release of the player. Unless someone has a vision and gets new code for running effects or other new features.
July 13th, 2005 at 9:51 am
Here’s an example using MovieClip.BlendModeType:
http://www.luminicbox.com/blog/default.aspx?page=post&id=49
Click on the ‘Descargar fuente’ for the source.
I had to change the third byte as you mentioned before
July 13th, 2005 at 10:27 am
Great job man!
July 13th, 2005 at 6:13 pm
Here’s an example using the flash.filters package: http://www.luminicbox.com/dev/flash/flash8/filters.html
There’s more info (in spanish) at http://www.luminicbox.com/blog/?page=post&id=49
You may found the class & property tree useful
Regards
July 14th, 2005 at 7:46 am
Some more experimenting.
It seems fast enough.
http://shockwaver.net/swf/fp8/bounce_blur.html
July 14th, 2005 at 8:14 am
An Image-Manipulation Example.
http://www.rgblaster.de/ff/f8toys1.html
July 14th, 2005 at 5:46 pm
It’s possible to make Macromedia Flash to export as SWF8, at http://www.nuran.org/ there’s a short description about it.
Here’s a more detailed step by step guide (with screenshots):
http://www.luminicbox.com/blog/default.aspx?page=post&id=50
(The instructions in english can be found in the comments)
July 15th, 2005 at 6:31 am
Cache as bitmap!!!!
Look at the difference!
http://www.potapenko.com/tmp/test_8_flash.html
July 17th, 2005 at 4:32 pm
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July 23rd, 2005 at 5:16 pm
Collected links to Maelstrom examples
Collected links to Maelstrom examples: “Here are collected links to Maelstrom examples Do not forget test your existing applications with new Flash player 8 beta.
Total examples [104] Discuss about Flash 8 features
Help for trying new features…
July 24th, 2005 at 5:04 pm
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July 27th, 2005 at 5:25 am
My experiments with flash player 8 can be fount here
http://www.lol.dk/fileview.asp?project=Misc&path=,Flash,Flash%20player%208%20Beta
Hopefully there should be a few new things each day while more stuff is uncoverd
August 21st, 2005 at 5:35 pm
just because i don`t understand perfectly:
can i write flash8 content in flash mx 2004?
where can i get the flash8 player`s built in (intrinsic) classes?
October 13th, 2005 at 10:38 pm
at this Site http://www.bitt-101.com there is examples vey complex ’bout flash 8 ….
October 14th, 2005 at 5:01 am
I think it is http://www.bit-101.com
October 17th, 2005 at 6:00 pm
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February 27th, 2006 at 7:24 pm
VERY NICE
May 27th, 2007 at 5:03 am
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December 6th, 2007 at 12:58 am
YOU ROCK