{"id":12,"date":"2003-07-31T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2003-07-31T23:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsfeed.fatorcaos.com.br\/wp\/?p=12"},"modified":"2005-07-17T08:40:43","modified_gmt":"2005-07-17T15:40:43","slug":"what-the-hell-flash-player-7-beta-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"What the hell: Flash Player 7 beta released"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the “everybody-knows-that-by-now-but-I-will-announce-it-anyways” department: the Flash Player 7 has been released<\/a> by Macromedia! It’s a public beta, so it’s not really fit for every user, but developers will surely love it.<\/p>\n

Remember when I said I’d love to test my slow stuff on the new player<\/a>? Well, here’s some tests I’ve ran on my computer.
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\nPathfinding example<\/a> – clicking on the sea port<\/b> (array manipulation, calculation, object creating\/setting\/retrieving)
\nFlash player 6: ~1.3s
\nFlash player 7: ~0.6s<\/p>\n

ANSi viewer example, large<\/a> – ANSi file parsing<\/b> (large string parsing)
\nFlash player 6: ~4.9s
\nFlash player 7: ~2.2s<\/p>\n

Metrix 2<\/a> – 3d point transformation and movieclip movement<\/b>
\nFlash player 6: 8fps (moving)
\nFlash Player 7: 15fps (moving)<\/p>\n

L2 Demo<\/a> – 3d point transformation and drawing<\/b>
\nFlash Player 6: 21fps (moving)
\nFlash Player 7: 32fps (moving)<\/p>\n

Great stuff. So, what’s new on this player?<\/p>\n

Apart from the increased processing speed, which was the issue on some Flash Forward presentation, the release notes<\/a> page at Macromedia’s site descrives several other features. The biggest one – unannounced until now – is the update mechanism<\/b>. Basically, you can instruct the plugin to check whether a new plugin version has been released; a bit like the Shockwave (director) plugin works. How cool is that? I’ve been dying for something like that since Flash 3.<\/p>\n

Of course, there’s also the new features that are available on Flash 7\/MX2\/2004 which are still unknown for us mortal beings. Hopefully these new features will be announced in the near future.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b> there’s a log of the objects and methods present in the new player here<\/a>. Source is, as always, the great FlashCoders<\/a> list (lost the original message sender).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the “everybody-knows-that-by-now-but-I-will-announce-it-anyways” department: the Flash Player 7 has been released by Macromedia! It’s a public beta, so it’s not really fit for every user, but developers will surely love it. Remember when I said I’d love to test my slow stuff on the new player? Well, here’s some tests I’ve ran on my computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}