Flash Player Beta Channel Update
The latest Flash Player 13 builds are now available. You can download Flash Player here:http://www.adobe.com/go/flashplayerbeta.
New and Updated Features:
- Supplementary Characters Enhancement Support for TextField
This is a desktop enhancement for supporting surrogate pairs in the TextField control. Now, characters out of the Basic Multilingual Plane(BMP) with Unicode code points between U+10000 and U+10FFFF will work correctly in the TextField control. It greatly enlarges the code point range we support and includes characters like emotion symbols (emoticons) and complex CCJK characters. This feature has been under an extended beta period. We anticipate this being included into the release version of the Runtime 13 release.
- Full Screen video message tweak
We've made a small tweak to the "Press Esc to exit full screen mode." message that's seen on full screen video. We've heard for sometime that this message obscures content and we wanted to make a change that both satisfies security concerns and customer viewing enjoyment. To help, we've simply moved the message towards the top of the screen from it's original centered position.
- New Stage3D texture wrapping modes - Currently you can set the wrapping mode of a texture to either clamp or repeat. Using the repeat option will repeat the texture on both the U and V axis. However, in some use cases, you might only want to repeat the texture on only one axis, either u or v. This is now possible with two new parameters: REPEAT_U_CLAMP_V and CLAMP_U_REPEAT_V.
- Stage3D Anti-Aliasing for Render texture - Anti-Aliasing is a useful technology to improve image quality. We've now implemented hardware based Multisampling Anti-Aliasing (MSAA) on desktop platforms. To enable this please set the level from 0 to 4 in Context3D's setRenderToTexture().
0 = 1 subsample, no antialiasing
1 = 2 subsamples, minimal antialiasing
2 = 4 subsamples, medium high-quality antialiasing
3 = 8 subsamples, high-quality antialiasing
4 = 16 subsamples, very high-quality antialiasing
Testing Guidance:
This release focuses on enhanced premium video capabilities and new platform support. We're looking for feedback on stability and compatibility with existing content on these new platforms.
Known Issues:
- 3058752 - Move 'Press ESC to exit full screen' to the top. Note, this currently only works for hardware accelerated video (e.g. YouTube)
- 3688307 - Creating an associative array element supplied with a blank name maps to array[0] when casting ObjectEncoding.AMF3 or ObjectEncoding.DEFAULT on a ByteArray instead of throwing an Exception
- 3710573 and 3710513 - Mac projector and playerglobal.swc have not been updated to the latest version
Fixed Issues:
- Multiple stability fixes
About the Beta Channel
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