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Below is an example that contains a SWF9 that was written in Flex (AS-only) and contains two textfields. The SWF9 loads a SWF8 that also contains two textfields. The top textfields are input fields. The left-hand contents belong to the SWF9 and the right-hand contents belong to the SWF8. When you type in the top-left textfield, which resides in the SWF9, the text will get sent to the bottom-right textfield, which resides in the SWF8. When you type in the top-right textfield, which resides in the SWF8, the text will get sent to the bottom-left textfield, which resides in the SWF9.
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It seems everywhere I’ve read when someone asks how to communicate between a version 9 SWF and a version 8 SWF that it loads, the answer is always “You have to use LocalConnection”. I’ve seen that response from Adobe people as well as others.

However, when I started looking into browser communication with my SWFs and then looked into the Flex-AJAX Bridge (FABridge), I thought maybe there was a better way. And there is: ExternalInterface.
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Why is the Flash Player Global Settings Manager (GSM I’ll call it) still the same as it’s been a couple of years now? Anyone that creates Flash content that I’ve ever talked to about the GSM says it’s bad. I think even someone from Adobe (Macromedia at the time) agreed, in a diplomatic way of course.
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When publishing for Flash player 8 the html property of a TextField placed on the stage at authortime is true regardless of what you set the property in the Properties inspector.
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When writing functions in Flash MX04/8 the codehint dropdown will not appear when using a name that starts with an “n”.

Here is an example of what I mean:

function n()

Typing the “:” afterwords should bring up the codehint dropdown for the method return type, but it doesn’t.

Also, none of the parameters you specify will get the codehint dropdown either.

The same is also the case for getters and setters:

function get whatever()

Anyone else see this and/or other similar issues?