General Known Issues in Flash Player 9.0
· Flash Player cannot progressively load files that are greater than 2Gb
· UILoader ignores scaleContent when content is loaded through loadBytes
· Memory utilization could substantially increase when large numbers of bitmaps that are subject to mipmapping are loaded
· Flash Player supports up to 30 frames per second playback for video.
· Opera and Netscape do not allow recursive calls using the ExternalInterface API into the Flash Player. This issue has been reported to Opera and Netscape.
· In certain browsers, full-screen does not render correctly when the window is split between two monitors where one monitor has a higher resolution than the other.
· Socket connecting to port under 1024 throws ioError, not securityError
· When using the Flex profiler, if FlashPlayerTrust is incorrectly created as a file, the Flex profiler will crash. Please ensure FlashPlayerTrust is properly configured as a directory.
· On the Windows standalone Flash Player, empty POST actions are changed to GET.
· Subsequent loads of ActionScript 2.0 SWFs containing components into a parent ActionScript 3.0 SWF may cause some components to break. The components will work on the first load, but loading new, or unloading ActionScript 2.0 components of the same class may exhibit this behavior.
· Developers should not rely on garbage collection if immediate clean up of active objects, such as display objects, streams and media, is expected. Use the appropriate ActionScript 3.0 APIs (close, removeEvent Listener, etc.) to get immediate behavior when cleaning up active objects.
· The delete operator is intended to remove properties of an object, and cannot be used to remove members of a class. For more details on the delete operator, see the ActionScript 3.0 Language Reference.
· Flash Player sound input does not work for OSX Audio MIDI sample rate settings higher than 48Khz. The microphone will either record noise or nothing. Some third party applications and MIDI breakout boxes will change the systemwide Audio settings on launch, and fail to return settings to default on close. To workaround this issue, go to Applications-> Utilities-> Audio MIDI Setup. Select Sound Input and change the properties for the ‘Built-in Input’ and/or ‘Built-in Microphone’ to a setting less than or equal to 48Khz.
· The standalone player cannot self-register SWF and FLV file associations under Vista without administrator privileges. Workaround: Users should launch SAFlashPlayer.exe once with administrator privileges by right-clicking on the EXE and selecting “Run as administrator” so it can correctly set the registry properties.
· Bitmap effects and filters cannot be printed.
· Button label text may not redraw correctly upon exiting full screen mode. User must mouse over the text to force the redraw.
· Transform Matrix transformations are not reflected in respective MovieClip/DisplayObject properties. Properties like scaleX, scaleY, and rotation are not changed as the result of changes to a DisplayObject’s transformation matrix (flash.geom.Transform, flash.geom.Matrix). However, changes to those properties are reflected in the matrix. If you change a property after changing the matrix, the matrix also resets to its original value. Affects ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0. Workaround: If using matrix transformations, avoid using scaleX, scaleY, and rotation in favor of their respective matrix transformations.
· Triggering stage.invalidate() during a “render” event listener fails.
· Empty strings passed through External Interface API via JavaScript are converted to null.
· Some users are experiencing sound problems under Windows due to lack of support for WaveOut with drivers for some video cards, such as Realtek and SoundMax.
· Launching the context menu when in full-screen mode may temporarily reduce FLV video playback performance on Macintosh systems.
· Although full-screen mode does not support text input, the text input cursor will display over input text fields. Workaround: dynamically convert input fields to dynamic text fields or disable TextInput components when in full-screen mode.