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copy/paste deterrent no longer works in Flash Player 10

February 19th, 2009  |  Posted in Developer Blog   |  Tags: ,

Thanks to Robert who gave me this bit of information.

Apparently in Flash Player 10 the clipboard can only be invoked by user interaction. My copy/paste deterrent—that I previously blogged about and subsequently became my most popular and most frequently visited post—was based on the idea that the clipboard would be written to several times per second because it was fired in the EnterFrame event. So, needless to say, it will not work in the latest version of the Flash Player Plugin.

Here’s what Adobe has to say about it on their website:

“In Flash Player 9, ActionScript could set data on the system Clipboard at any time. With Flash Player 10, the System.setClipboard() method may be successfully called only through ActionScript that originates from user interaction. This includes actions such as clicking the mouse or using the keyboard. This user interaction requirement also applies to the new ActionScript 3.0 Clipboard.generalClipboard.setData() and Clipboard.generalClipboard.setDataHandler() methods.”

Maybe someone will be able to take my idea and figure out a way to detect “user interaction” outside the 1px by 1px flash file I was using to accomplish the task. Then maybe we can get it working again.

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted!

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Adobe CS4 Installation Fail

January 23rd, 2009  |  Posted in Developer Blog   |  Tags: ,

I’ve spent the past 3 days trying to install Adobe CS4 Web Premium on my home Windows XP computer (as the second install of my license at work). I kept getting an error before anything would install telling me something like “the following programs failed to install” (I forget the exact wording).

Upon checking the Windows System Logs (Event Viewer -> Application), all it would tell me was “Product: Adobe Anchor Service CS4 — Installation operation failed.” With no other explanation.

After spending a bunch of time trying to find the answer with Google and on Adobe’s website, I finally came across the solution. Part of the problem, as I see it, is that CS4 is so new there isn’t much help out there for it yet. In the end, the solution is for CS3 but works beautifully for CS4 as well.

Basically you need to complete 2 simple steps.

1) Download and install the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

2) Download, unzip, and run the Adobe Windows CS3 Cleanup Script (which relies on the Windows program mentioned above to run) here:

http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cs3clean.html

I only had to run level 1 of the cleanup script to make it work.

As I said before, even though the Cleanup Script says it’s for CS3, it did work for me in installing CS4 as well.

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Adobe MAX 2007

October 2nd, 2007  |  Posted in Developer Blog   |  Tags: , , , ,

I’m at Adobe MAX this week. I’m currently sitting in the sneak peek session and blogging it with my phone (so forgive any typos or misunderstandings).

Out of over 600 entries, the MAX award’s people’s choice was given to eBay Desktop.

Now for the sneaks:

Adobe Visual Communicator is new to Adobe. We all got a copy when we got here but had no idea what it was until the session explained that its pretty much a way to create video as though you are in a TV studio with teleprompter and effects. You can also do live streaming. It handles green screening, multiple cameras etc. with just a single simple laptop. This is the first time we’ve been able to play with a sneak peek at home!

An online diary service called Coconiki (or something) being used internally at Adobe is a tool to create an online diary for close knit friends. I guess it’s more than blogging software because it has voice, video, photos, music, etc., etc.

Flash Home for Mobile wants to change poor usability in cell phones. This will boot the phone directly into flash instead of the native interface. It contains a slick interface with animations, etc. It can also connect to the web. Flash Home is similar to AIR in that it’s integrated with the phone, not the phone’s browser. You can make it show a custom image based on the area code of the person calling.

Photoshop Express is a consumer *online* version of photoshop. Not intended to replace Photoshop for hardcore users, but rather a consumer product for the average joe. Uses Flash player as the delivery platform. Red eye removal, rubber stamping, color replacement, distort, and a pretty cool “timeline” history (undo) interface were demonstrated.

Some new (or not) features in FireWorks “Next” will allow you to actually export Flex (or AIR) app code directly from Fireworks using built in Flex Components.

ColdFusion can be used to create AIR apps. Or something…not only am I not a ColdFusion user, the guy presenting barely spoke English. No offence Hemant.

Web to print apps will be possible using Flex and Indesign servers(?) where a user can update a document online and it can be spit out beautifully via PDF.

Future version of Flash may include a new stage core which will allow you to play flv video on the stage during development time. You could tweak the videos while they are playing! New tweening tools will allow you to monkey with a tween visually on the stage rather than on the timeline and is transferable with the object. Flash will also have IK capabilities!!! Killer!

Flash and PDF can now talk to each other using JavaScript and ActionScript. Therefore Acrobat collaboration can happen over connect.

Building Flex applications on linux will now be possible (not just using a text editor) using a Flex Builder for Linux. This is available *right now* on Adobe labs as an Alpha product (very early version).

An experimental technology that allows you to use C/C++ to do some XSLT stuff with Flash was demonstrated. Essentially you could extend ActionScript with C++, Python, Ruby, etc. in Flash for many uses, and use the libs or protocals for those inside of Flash.

The final presentation was by Shai Avadan showing off his now YouTube made famous technology which allows you do to lossless image resizing. If you haven’t seen his video yet, it’s well worth it. Your jaw will drop to the floor. Adobe immediately hired the guy ans are planning to use his idea in future versions of Photoshop.

That’s about it. I’m going to the party now.

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