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Last week, I updated and rebuilt the Flex SDK from Subversion, and was pleasantly surprised to find that new players had been included in the repository. It was followed by disappointment that my pet project, which leans heavily on the new SAMPLE_DATA events in the Sound API stopped working.

It turns out that in player 10,0,0,591, the SAMPLE_DATA event string, which up to this point has been a property of the flash.events.Event class has been moved to now exist upon the flash.events.SampleDataEvent class. I’d always wondered why the Flash Player team had chosen to create a SampleDataEvent class, but to put the string that defines the event on the Event class instead of the SampleDataEvent class. It appears that this inconsistency has now been cleared up.

It does, however, lead to a situation where a software product labelled as Release Candidate is still having significant changes made to it that will break software developed against it. It leaves me with the conundrum of having examples of the new Sound API extensions on our blog that will either work with the latest (but somewhat obscure) version of the player and leave most users with a broken experience, or to develop against the old API in the knowledge that the pieces will eventually break when newer versions of the player are officially rolled out.

I think it’s time to redefine my understanding of the term “Release Candidate”!

I’ve been roadtesting Google Chrome. Maybe it’s just me, but none of the links to posts on Adobe Feeds work. All you get is the mysterious message:

This web page is not available.

The web page at null might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

More information on this error
Below is the original error message

Error 320 (net::ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE): Unknown error.

This is an example of one of the links. Can any other Chromsters confirm?

[The contents of this article are now incorrect. We've been using the players in this package and this one for linux now.]

The infomation in a previous post about the location of the standalone debug player for Flash Player 10 is now incorrect as Adobe deleted some locations from the Flex subversion repository around the start of the month.

The player 10 debug versions can now be found here:

http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/flex/sdk/trunk/in/player/10

As far as I can tell (I’ve only checked Windows standalone and Windows plugin, not the activex version), they’re at version 10,0,0,591, released yesterday. The browser plugin installed is a debug version, which will be handy.