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‎Jan 12, 2021
12:39 PM
I think Flashplayer 31 will continue working just fine offline - that's what I'm using at the moment.
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‎May 19, 2020
11:00 AM
I eventually figured it out. I think the trick was to add new port rules to the Windows Defender Firewall. Works well now, I'm getting useful Scout data while my Flash games are running on my Samsung phone!
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‎May 19, 2020
10:53 AM
The latest versions of AIR will not include a web Flashplayer in the package (expecting the user to have it installed). You can either use an older version of AIR (AIR 21 or earlier) to enable a "captive" Flashplayer, or use this obscure work-around in newer versions: Install NPAPI flash player from https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/npapi/ Download the latest AIRSDK from https://adobe.com/devnet/air/air-sdk-download.html then remove/rename these files: \runtimes\air-captive\win\Adobe AIR\Versions\1.0\Resources\NPSWF32.dll \runtimes\air-captive\win64\Adobe AIR\Versions\1.0\Resources\NPSWF64.dll And replace them with: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32_32_0_0_192.dll (paste it in the above location and rename the file to NPSWF32.dll) And: C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash\NPSWF64_32_0_0_192.dll (paste it in the above location and rename the file to NPSWF64.dll) Basically you're just changing some placeholder files to trick the compiler into including Flashplayer. If you publish your AIR application after changing the files, the user won't need to have Flashplayer installed. I'm publishing from Adobe Animate CC, but I'm assuming this trick may work for you also.
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‎Apr 26, 2020
10:30 AM
You can test your software on a computer that does not have the Flash plugin installed - if it runs, then you don't need the Flash plugin installed! If it's simply a projector .exe that's running .swf content, then I think it should be fine without the Flash plugin. An Adobe AIR .exe may need the Flash plugin, depending on how it's been packaged.
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‎Apr 26, 2020
10:19 AM
Hey all, I'm setting up Adobe Scout on my Android phones to test some AIR/Flash games - I've got Scout running on my PC, but the companion app on my phone just can't see it. Even when I enter the IP address manually into the app, it tries to connect, and says that Scout is not running. I've double checked that my devices are on the same network and port, my firewall seems to be disabled, and that the Adobe Scout settings allow the PC to be dicoverable. I'm probably missing something obvious here! Anyone had a similar issue?
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‎Jun 26, 2019
04:30 PM
3 Upvotes
If you're looking for examples of AIR Desktop apps, here's some games on Steam that use AIR: My stuff: Epic Battle Fantasy 5 Bullet Heaven 2 Epic Battle Fantasy 3 (this one is free) Games by other developers: Machinarium Botanicula Samorost 3 Defenders Quest Evoland 1 & 2 Super Chibi Knight Deep Under the Sky Anodyne Sentry Knight Tactics The Last Door Road Not Taken Not AIR, but still Flash apps: Neo Scavenger (Flash projector) Epic Battle Fantasy 4 (MDM Zinc) Intrusion 2 (MDM Zinc) The Binding of Isaac (custom wrapper)
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‎Jun 20, 2019
12:16 PM
I think the pricing is reasonable as long as we're getting regular new features. Of course I'd prefer if it was less, but I'm happy to pay if it makes porting my games to different platforms very easy. What I really don't like is the rules about auditting, and needing to keep the subscription for as long as your apps are on the market. As a Desktop game developer, I can publish a game on Steam, and possibly never need to update it. Under these new rules I'd have to keep paying the AIR fee every year, for who knows how long! But I don't publish games very often - once a year at most - so I can see how developers could exploit the old pricing and only buy a subscription for a month when they publish. I'm not sure what the best compromise is here - maybe give devs a good deal if they buy a long-term subscription, and charge more for a single month? Either way, I'm keen to try porting my Desktop games to mobile, and if AIR makes that easy, I'll be happy, even if I have to pay a lot for it. (But I'll keep using old versions of AIR for my Desktop stuff, if this pricing stays!)
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‎May 30, 2019
04:44 PM
1 Upvote
I'm excited for this change. I think Adobe never figured out a way to make money from AIR, so development stagnated on it. Maybe Harman will figure out a fair pricing model and develop new features and support even more platforms. Or maybe they'll take the tech in a direction that we don't want. Who knows? I guess I'll just wait and see what happens.
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‎Mar 03, 2019
08:34 AM
In my opinion it seems very odd that Flash is much better optimised on mobile than it is on desktop. It could be an amazing game development tool if vector graphics were hardware accelerated and there was no need for a framework like Starling, which slows down development. Flash's ease-of-use was always its main selling point in my opinion, and it would really stand out from the competition if it kept doing what it was good at. It's a shame. I totally sympathise.
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‎Mar 03, 2019
08:25 AM
I had a similar problem, where I wanted to run Flashplayer inside AIR, but also wanted to make sure that the user didn't need to have Flashplayer installed. In older versions of AIR, you can compile your project with a Flashplayer included, so that your app will always run, even if the user doesn't have Flashplayer. Unfortunately, I think AIR 21 was the last version with this option, and I don't know if you can do it in newer versions.
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‎Dec 10, 2018
05:25 PM
Thanks for the advice! I'm using HTMLoader to run the swf inside AIR. I was hoping the browser-style pop-ups would never appear, but oh well. I'm currently changing my save system to use plain old text files instead of .sol files.
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‎Dec 07, 2018
10:04 AM
(I'm sorry if this is in the wrong forum, as this is more of a Flashplayer question.) Hey, I've just launched a Flash game on Steam/Windows. It uses an old version of AIR (21) to run an old captive version of Flashplayer (21). The reason for this is that AIR for desktop does not support Stage quality settings otherwise. Everything works fine and the game's launch went well, but a small number of users are finding that this Flashplayer pop up is completely frozen for them - they can't click on it and can't resume the game. I know this problem has been around for years - has a reliable and simple solution ever been found? Can I as a developer do anything? Most users don't have a Flash plugin installed, so they don't have Flash settings in their Windows control panel. Is there any other way to allow Flash storage? I may need to reprogram the saving system to avoid using .sol files altogether... Thanks, and sorry for this very outdated question!
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‎Dec 07, 2018
09:59 AM
Hey guys, I've just launched a Flash game on Steam/Windows. It uses an old version of AIR (21) to run an old captive version of Flashplayer (21). The reason for this is that AIR for desktop does not support Stage quality settings otherwise. Everything works fine and the game's launch went well, but a small number of users are finding that this Flashplayer pop up is completely frozen for them - they can't click on it and can't resume the game. I know this problem has been around for years - has a reliable and simple solution ever been found? Can I as a developer do anything? Most users don't have a Flash plugin installed, so they don't have Flash settings in their Windows control panel. Is there any other way to allow Flash storage? I may need to reprogram the saving system to avoid using .sol files altogether. Thanks!
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‎Nov 24, 2018
11:13 AM
Thanks, I'm glad there's a thread about this, because I had the same problem. After I disabled Display Scaling for my app (through file properties in Windows), I can't seem to turn it back on, and therefore can't test the solution. Oh well, hopefully users won't see the problem in my app anymore.
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‎Nov 24, 2018
10:54 AM
Thanks! From what testers are telling me, the problem happens much more often when they have many applications open and the game is running slowly, so I guess other applications may indeed be changing the shared memory. Either way, I've changed my code to check the connection every few seconds, remake the receiver if checks fail, and then re-send any data that failed to send while the connection was down. A bit clunky, but it works well enough, and hopefully the user won't notice. I'll look into NetConnection for any similar future projects, and see if it turns out to be more reliable.
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‎Nov 23, 2018
02:40 AM
Hey guys, I'm having an odd problem with the LocalConnection class. Short version: My LocalConnection code runs perfectly until it doesn't. Long version: I'm launching a game on Steam/Windows soon, and I'm using an AIR 21 application to load a .swf file using HTMLloader, which runs in a captive Flashplayer (correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the newer versions of AIR allow a captive Flashplayer? The end user must NOT be required to have the Flash plugin). I'm running the game this way so I can use AIR's application features like file-creation and ANEs, while still having access to the deprecated Stage-quality settings of Flashplayer. I'm basically porting a browser-game with vector-graphics to Steam. I've set up a seperate LocalConnection in each direction, from the AIR .swf to the Flashplayer .swf, and vice versa (both using AS3), and I use them to transfer save files both ways, and to unlock achievements on Steam. When the game starts, this works perfectly, for anywhere between a few minutes to several hours (the connection is used regularly). Then attempts to send data from the Flashplayer side just stop working, and any attempts to close and re-create the connection on that side are unsuccessful, until the game is restarted. From what I understand, the status error message is the same as if the receiver did not exist. But the AIR .swf (the receiver) is very basic, it just loads Flashplayer and waits for commands through LocalConnection - I don't see what could have happened to it. As far as I can tell I've done everything mentioned in Adobe's documentation - and my LocalConnection code is the same as the examples given. I've limited the domains to "localhost" and "appname", I've made sure the data I'm sending is less than 40kb, and I've got listeners that display errors if data fails to send. I have no idea what I've done wrong. Everything works correctly at first. Is there any other LocalConnection limitations I'm not aware of? What could cause a LocalConnection to close unexpectedly? Could other running applications possibly interfere? What is the best practice for programming a fail-safe? Can anyone confirm they've used LocalConnection in a similar way without any problems, and therefor there's a problem with my code somewhere else? I've heard it's possible for LocalConnections to break if the application crashes and the connection stays open until a system restart. But I don't think that applies here, since my app doesn't need to crash, and a system restart is not required - only my app needs to be restarted for the connection to work again. Thanks, and sorry for the long post.
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‎Oct 28, 2018
12:16 PM
Hey, I'm releasing an AIR game for Windows soon, and was wondering if there's any way to change the user's screen resolution. From what I've seen, there's no ANE for this, and no built in way to do this. I'd like to give the user resolution options, as is the norm in PC games, and my game is unlikely to run smoothly in very high resolutions. I'm using HTMLLoader to load the game SWF into a wrapper SWF, as this allows me to use the now defunct LOW and MEDIUM stage quality settings. But this causes difficulties with fullscreen scaling. If I go into fullscreen from the game SWF, the "You are now entering fullscreen mode" pop-up appears, as if the game were in a browser, and looks very unprofessional. If I go into fullscreen from the wrapper SWF, I cannot use the stage.fullScreenSourceRect object for resolution scaling, as it doesn't seem to effect the game SWF. Unless I'm missing something, I really can't think of any elegant solution besides changing the user's screen resolution. Thanks. Update: I'm currently trying out a program called Qres.exe to change the resolution. It seems to work - my game can launch it and use it to change the screen resolution. I can imagine some problem situations, such as a user having multiple monitors, or the game crashing and not changing the resolution back. But I think this may be a satisfactory solution unless I run into other problems...
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‎May 10, 2018
07:41 AM
In particular I'm referring to Stage Quality options and GPU support for bitmaps in the old display list - these both exist on mobile but not Desktop. These features would be incredibly useful for preserving/porting old Flash games to Desktop, and have been requested by many developers for years. Yes there's some odd workarounds for these problems, but traditional Flash content still runs better on mobile, unless I've missed some recent developments, in which case I digress.
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‎May 10, 2018
05:52 AM
I agree with the guys above. I'll be happy to pay for AIR if Adobe shows a commitment to adding the new features that we need, especially when it comes to making Desktop games, not just mobile, which seems to be their focus now. Currently Flash content is still more optimised on mobile than it is on Desktop, which is absurd, considering the huge indie game market on PC.
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‎Nov 15, 2017
08:43 AM
2 Upvotes
I'm not happy with some of Adobe's decisions, but besides that I've mostly loved working with Flash over the last 15 years or so. Flash allowed making content quickly and deploying it on many platforms easily. It was probably better at this than any other tech ever. It allowed me to learn animation and later turn that into games that anyone could play in a browser, and even on Steam. I hope AIR carries on that legacy.
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‎Jul 25, 2017
03:08 PM
Sad to see Flash go, but this was expected for a long time now. This is good news for my AIR games on Steam though! If AIR continues to get new features, I may end up using "Flash" for some time still. Thanks for finally getting this road map out! I feel very relieved after years of uncertainty.
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‎Mar 20, 2017
04:58 AM
I'd love it if there was a simple way of changing the screen resolution in Desktop AIR. Either an ANE or a built in feature would be great. This other one isn't really Starling related, but I'd love it if Desktop AIR supported LOW and MEDIUM stage quality like Flash Player does. This would be incredibly useful when porting old web games to Steam.
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‎Mar 19, 2017
06:05 AM
Hey guys, I'm trying to port a Flash game originally made for the web to Steam. The game relies on the StageQuality settings to achieve decent performance, and these are not available in Desktop AIR. So my plan is to run the game in Flashplayer, packaged in an AIR app which let's me take advantage AIR features. Here's the features I need from AIR: • Different window sizes (done) • Different "windowed" full screen resolutions (having problems here) • Unprompted file creation/access (not attempted yet) • Steam API access with the FRESteamworks ANE (done) Here's the features I need from Flash Player: • Low and Medium StageQuality At the moment my approach is to use a HTMLLoader object in my AIR swf, to open the game swf in Flash Player, and then use LocalConnection to communicate with it. This seems to be working so far, but I'm having trouble with the full screen resolutions. If I implement full screen in the game swf, the "allow full screen with keyboard controls?" pop up appears, and is frozen (I can't click it). If I implement full screen in the AIR swf, I can't use fullScreenSourceRect to achieve different resolutions - it only affects the HTML page, not the swfs within it, as far as I can see. Neither of these approaches are ideal... Does anyone have any experience working on something similar? Am I doing this totally wrong? Is there a way to treat a swf in the HTMLoader object as a local swf? (to bypass the pop up?) Thanks.
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‎Jan 15, 2017
05:50 AM
Update: I think I’ve found a solution to my problem. With the help of HTMLLoader and LocalConnection, I can get Flashplayer running inside AIR, and I can get the best of both (AIR features AND stage quality from Flashplayer). This is a reasonable work-around I think.
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‎Jan 12, 2017
07:36 AM
I also wrote a blog post that goes into a lot more detail about my specific situation, if anyone is interested: Mid-Project Crisis | Kupo Games
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‎Jan 12, 2017
04:37 AM
1 Upvote
Is there any word from Adobe about whether or not they plan to make performance improvements to the Desktop version of AIR? AIR on mobile has two features I desperately need when publishing Flash games on Steam: Stage quality and/or GPU render mode for bitmaps. Both of these features have a lot of votes on Adobe Tracker/Bugbase, but are marked as not a priority and there's been no comment from Adobe for months: https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/AIR-4123650Tracker Tracker Without these features I'm considering finally ditching Flash and moving to Unity. There's no point in me developing on a platform that isn't supported, and many ex-Flash devs I've spoken to feel the same way.
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‎Mar 01, 2016
06:24 AM
1 Upvote
I'm sticking to Windows because I don't have any experience with Mac or Linux and don't want to risk doing a bad job of those versions. But I think Mac isn't too difficult to do - Air and the FRESteamworks ANE should work on Mac without much issues. I know Linux is very difficult to do though, I think the Defender's Quest devs managed it but it was a lot of trouble with complex workarounds and I don't think they ever want to do that again. Linux is still a tiny minority of the Steam user base though, so I wouldn't stress over it too much.
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‎Feb 29, 2016
01:24 PM
1 Upvote
I should add that many of the people commenting in this thread have released well-received Flash/Air games on Steam. I've made Epic Battle Fantasy 4 and Bullet Heaven 2, and would like to use Flash for my next game too. But before I commit to using it for my next project I would like to know whether Adobe are planning to support the features I need, and the quality settings are the most important thing for me right now. If the answer is "no", I'd like to know so I can start seriously considering alternative game engines. Thanks.
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‎Feb 09, 2016
01:52 PM
Yes, in the Desktop version of Air, LOW and MEDIUM settings do nothing. This is covered in Adobe's documentation, so it's a feature and not a bug. "In the desktop profile of Adobe AIR, quality can be set to StageQuality.BEST or StageQuality.HIGH (and the default value is StageQuality.HIGH ). Attempting to set it to another value has no effect." StageQuality - Adobe ActionScript® 3 (AS3 ) API Reference
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‎Dec 31, 2015
06:10 AM
2 Upvotes
Are there any plans to bring back the LOW and MEDIUM quality settings to Air for Desktop? These features are essential for playing vector-heavy games on older hardware or in high resolution, and without them I'm better off using the regular Flashplayer with some other .exe wrapper. I quite like Air otherwise, but without these settings, it's largely useless for some of my games.
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