To target Flash Player 10 from MXMLC compiler you need to add this option:

--target-player=10.0.0

Source: http://dispatchevent.org/mims/flexbuilder-keyboard-shortcuts/

Tags: Actionscript 3, as3, Eclipse, FDT, Flash, ide

1) Eclipse Splash Screen

There are two ways of changing the Eclipse splash screen, manually or using the Random Splash Screen plugin:

• Manually
  Put the “splash.bmp” file in the folder C:\eclipse\ and add the following line to the file C:\eclipse\eclipse.ini:
  -showsplash
splash.bmp

• Random Splash Screen
  Everytime Eclipse starts, Random Splash Screen overwrites Eclipse’s splash screen with a random image picked from your personal image folder. This image is then displayed on the next Eclipse start.Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rndsplash/To modify the plugin options go in

Since I was not satisfied with the splash screens that I found I asked my friend Denio Barani to design a splash screen more appealing, and here are the four versions:

Here a list of various splash screens that I found around the web:

• http://theflashblog.com/plugins/splash.jpg
• http://kg.mango12.com/misc/eclipse.png
• http://kg.mango12.com/misc/splash2.png
• http://kg.mango12.com/misc/splash3.png
• http://www.lieblingsagentur.tv/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/splash.bmp
• http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3268/2778466798_e556f6fd9b.jpg?v=0
• http://gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-files/59119-splash.bmp

2) Eclipse icon

I don’t like a lot the standard Eclipse icon so here you can find some different ones:

• http://theflashblog.com/plugins/icons.zip
• http://gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-files/71546-eclipse256.png
• http://www.deviantart.com/download/76695261/Eclipse_Dock_Icon_by_nickmitchell.zip
• http://kmassada.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/eclipse.png
• http://www.kde-look.org/CONTENT/content-m1/m71809-1.png
• http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/units/comp332/images/Eclipse.jpg
• http://shaun.boyblack.co.za/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/osxeclipseicon2561.jpg

To convert the images to icons use the iConvert website.

Tags: Actionscript 3, as3, Eclipse, FDT, Flash, ide

In the second post of the serie I suggested some useful plugins. Now is time to configure the Eclipse and FDT installation.

Obviously this is my way of configuring both, so if you would like to make some changes I suggest you to explore all the menus and submenus in Eclipse because you’ll find a lot of interesting properties that can be customized to suit your needs. Here is my configuration.

1) Eclipse preferences configuration

• Window -> Preferences -> General -> Always run in background
  Window -> Preferences -> General -> Show heap status
  
• Window -> Preferences -> General -> Editors -> Text Editors -> Show line numbers
  
• Window -> Preferences -> General -> Keys -> Select the “Run Ant Build” and in Binding press CTRL + ENTER to bind this shortcut to the command
  

2) FDT preferences configuration

• Window -> Preferences -> FDT -> Build Path -> Output folder name: deploy
  
• Window -> Preferences -> FDT -> Code style -> Formatter -> Set how you you want your code formatted
  
• Window -> Preferences -> FDT -> Core Libraries -> AS3 Core Libraries -> Add…
  Type: Flash CS3
  Name: FLASH_CS4_COMPONENTS
  click Browse…

  
  
  
  click New...

  
  

  Name: FLASH_CS4_COMPONENTS
  Location: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS4\Common\Configuration\ActionScript 3.0\FP10
  click OK

  
  

  click OK

  
  

• Window -> Preferences -> FDT -> Editor -> Code Assist -> Auto activation triggers for AS: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz_.:
  
• Window -> Preferences -> FDT -> Editor -> Folding -> Leave Folding enabled checked and uncheck all the others
  
• Window -> Preferences -> FDT -> Tools -> Flash -> Flash IDE: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS4\Flash.exe
  Window -> Preferences -> FDT -> Tools -> Flash -> Flash Player: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS4\Players\FlashPlayer.exe
  Window -> Preferences -> FDT -> Tools -> Flash -> Flash ASO Directory: C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash CS4\en\Configuration\Classes\aso

  
  

• Window -> Preferences -> FDT -> Tools -> Flash Help -> Click Update Help
  

3) Perspective customization

• Window -> Customize Perspective -> Tool Bar Visibility -> Disable FDT MXML Coding
  
• Window -> Customize Perspective -> Command Group Availability -> Disable Annotation Navigation
  Window -> Customize Perspective -> Command Group Availability -> Disable Editor Navigation
  Window -> Customize Perspective -> Command Group Availability -> Disable FDT MXML Coding

  

• Window -> Customize Perspective -> Shortcuts -> Submenus: New -> Disable MXML Class
  
• Window -> Customize Perspective -> Shortcuts -> Submenus: Open Perspective -> Enable Flash FDT
  Window -> Customize Perspective -> Shortcuts -> Submenus: Open Perspective -> Disable Java
  Window -> Customize Perspective -> Shortcuts -> Submenus: Open Perspective -> Disable Resource

  

Select if it’s not already selected Window -> Open Perspective -> Other… Flash FDT and press OK

Then close this views:

• SWF Viewer
• Javadoc View

Then open the Ant view from Window -> Show View -> Ant and dock it with the Outline panel.
If you want you can select the button Link with Editor inside the Flash Explorer so the current file you are editing will be selected in the Flash Explorer project tree.
The final look will be this (click to enlarge):

I suggest you to move the minimized toolbars (like Flash Explorer, Outline Panel, Problems, etc.) at the bottom of the interface so when everything is minimized and you’re writing code you’ve the maximum space available like this (click to enlarge):

Next post: Eclipse 3.5 and FDT 3.2 for Actionscript development – Part 4 – Customization

Tags: Actionscript 3, as3, Eclipse, FDT, Flash, ide

In the first post of the serie I explained how to install a plugin. Here is a list of additional plugins that you can install if you need the features they provide:

• Subclipse
  Update site: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x

  Subclipse is an Eclipse Team Provider plug-in providing support for Subversion within the Eclipse IDE.
  

• ExploreFS
  Update site: http://www.junginger.biz/eclipse/

  ExploreFS is a tiny plugin that opens a selected file in the folder of the native file manager. It adds “Explore in File System” to the context menu of Eclipse’s package explorer, resource navigator, and other views.
  

• Eclipse XML Editors and Tools
  Update site:  Galileo – http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo (included in Eclipse)
  Select Programming languages -> Eclipse XML Editors and Tools

  XML, DTD and XML Schema Editors, validators, and XML Catalog support for Eclipse. Installing this you will be able to edit XML files inside Eclipse.

  

• BigSource Zarkov
  Update site: http://update.bigsource.de/update

  BigSource Zarkov is a compiler wrapper for eclipse to simplify ant tasks. It features ant taskdefinitions with autocompletion for every compilertask. Creating ant targets with the choosen compiler and the comiler specific options will become more comfortable.

  The following compilers/players are supported:

  • mxmlc (fcsh) implemented
  • amxmlc implemented
  • compc (fcsh) implemented
  • acompc (fcsh) implemented
  • asdoc implemented
  • aasdoc implemented
  • Mtasc implemented
  • Haxe implemented
  • Flashplayer implemented
  • Browser implemented
  • ADL (Air Debug Launcher) implemented
  • ADT (Air Developer Tool) incl. Prepare, Package, Certificate and Sign implemented

  

• PixelBender Outline View
  Website: http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2008/10/08/pixelbender-outline-view/

  PixelBender Outline is a simple view for Eclipse. It allows you to browse through compiled PixelBender kernel files (pbj). Usually it is quite annoying when working with PixelBender. You always have to debug the shader if you did not write it yourself to know about parameters and stuff. The PixelBender Outline view allows you to navigate through that information in a comfortable way.

• MetaLaunch
  Website: http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2009/05/11/metalaunch-for-eclipse/

  Ever wanted to start multiple launchers with one single click in Eclipse? MetaLaunch will solve this issue. Just select the launchers you want to start and then change the order to fit your needs. You can also select to launch those tasks sequential or in a one shot.

• FlashHunter Deluxe
  Website: http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2008/06/17/flashhunter-deluxe/FlashHunter is a neat Eclipse plug-in Joa Ebert wrote that allows you to kill all running Flash player instances with a single click. He was implementing the fast Fourier transformation in Flash and he had a stupid error that caused an endless loop. Since he was testing with the standalone player the only way to get rid of it was Ctrl+Alt+Del and killing it. This was not really a nice workflow so he wrote the plug-in.

Feel free to suggest any other useful plugin posting a comment on this page.

Next post will be: Eclipse 3.5 and FDT 3.2 for Actionscript development – Part 3 – Configuration

Tags: Actionscript 3, as3, Eclipse, FDT, Flash, ide

In the last four years I always used FlashDevelop for Actionscript 2 and 3 development but some time ago I decided to give a try to the Eclipse and FDT combo for various reasons:

• Cross-platform
  Actually I’m using Windows but I’m hoping to switch to MacOS X as soon as possible and I would like to maintain my work-flow. Unfortunately FlashDevelop is Windows only.
• Advanced Refactoring
  Advanced Refactoring add common refactoring tools like Rename Type, Rename Variable/Function, Rename Package and Move Type to the FDT 3 editor.
• Advanced Code Completition
  This powerful feature auto-completes words and phrases during typing. The advanced code completion function is available for imports, types, members and lots of basic key words. FDT 3 code completion furthermore supports generators by using extension points.
• Improved Autocompletition
  You can now use the auto-completion to generate whole methods. Insert a name into the body of a class and press <CTRL>+<SPACE> and a new method with that name will be created. You can also generate a constructor by the same procedure if the constructors name begins with the class name.
• Organize imports
  FDT 3 enables your editor to organize and to perform all necessary imports for a complete package or even for your whole project by a single shortcut and certainly adds missing ones automatically. Thereby, moving classes and packages or renaming them becomes quite easy.
• Live Error Highlighting
  The integrated ActionScript parser allows detecting and visualizing lexical and syntactical errors continuously while typing new code to the editor frame and for more, a semantic analysis is performed permanently to check types, members and declarations of both the current file and the whole project. Different kinds of problems can be tagged with “error”, “warning” or “ignore”. FDT 3 offers the opportunity to add problem generators to FDT 3 by using extension points.
• Live Templates
  Templates provide a fast way to write typical coding structures. FDT 3 analyses the surrounding code and suggests variables matching the template like types and members.
• Quickfixes
  Quickfixes are available for many syntactical and semantic problems. This covers a wide range of e. g. non terminated statements up to undeclared variables. FDT 3 will automatically add the semicolon where necessary or define a variable with the correct type.
• Formatter
  An integrated and extensively configurable formatter will format the source code when you demand it by shortcut. All source code that is generated by FDT 3 will automatically be formatted as well. The formatter can be configured specifically for each project.

While testing this combination I decided to document everything for a future reinstalling and is not a bad idea share it with everyone, so here it comes this series of posts on Eclipse and FDT integration in your development work-flow.

Installation instructions

1) Install Java Runtime Environment

You can choose between Sun Java SE or Oracle JRockit (if your processor is Intel):

• Java SE Runtime environment
  The Java SE Runtime Environment contains the Java virtual machine, run-time class libraries, and Java application launcher that are necessary to run programs written in the Java programming language. It is not a development environment and does not contain development tools such as compilers or debuggers.
  Download from: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
• JRockit
  The JRockit JVM is a high performance JVM developed to ensure reliability, scalability, manageability, and flexibility for Java applications. The JRockit JVM delivers a new level of performance for Java applications deployed on Intel 32-bit (Xeon) and 64-bit (Xeon, Itanium, and SPARC) architectures at significantly lower costs to the enterprise. Furthermore, it is the only enterprise-class JVM optimized for Intel architectures, providing seamless inter operability across multiple hardware and operating configurations. The JRockit JVM makes it possible to gain optimal performance for your Java applications when running it on either the Windows or Linux operating platforms on either 32-bit or 64-bit architectures.
  Download from: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/jrockit/index.html

2) Install Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) Platform Runtime Binary

These drops contain only the Eclipse Platform with user documentation and no source and no programmer documentation. The Java Development Tools and Plug-in Development Environment are NOT included. You can use these drops  when you don’t need the entire SDK. Basically is a full working minimal Eclipse. I prefere to use this version and then install Java Development Tools to add ANT support. No useless stuff.

• Download from: http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.5-200906111540/index.php#PlatformRuntime
  
• Put the “eclipse” folder in C:\ or in any other path without spaces in the name. I used C:\.
  
• Edit the file C:\eclipse\eclipse.ini and replace the content with this (if you want you can customize the memory settings):
-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.200.v20090520.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.0.200.v20090519
-vmargs
-Xms128m
-Xmx1024m
-XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=10
-XX:MaxPermSize=128m
-XX:PermSize=64m
-XX:+UseParallelGC
• If you installed JRockit you need to add also this line at the beginning of the file:
-vm
"C:\Program Files\JRockit Real Time\jrrt-3.1.0-1.6.0\bin\javaw.exe"
• Create a shortcut to your “C:\eclipse\eclipse.exe” file and use it to launch Eclipse.

3) Plugins installation

For every plugin is provided an Update site. To use it you need to launch eclipse and go to Help -> Install new software… and click on the Add… button.

Then insert the plugin name in the Name field and copy and paste the location of the Update site (provided under the plugin name in this post) in the Location field.

Then you have to select the desired update site from the combo-box labeled Work with:.

The available software will be listed. Select the software that you want to install and click the button Next >.

Click another time the Next > button.

Accept the license agreement and click Next > button.

Now the plugin will be install. Wait until it finish.

At the end the plugin will ask to restart eclipse. Click yes and after restart the installed plugin will be active.

The quickest way to import all the Update Sites is to download the file below to your desktop and go to Window -> Preferences -> Install/Update -> Available Software Site and click on the button Import… then select the downloaded file. All Update Site will appear in the list.

If an Update site is not provided, you need to go to the Website of the plugin and download it, then place the jar file manually in the  “c:\eclipse\plugins” directory.
Note: Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux are supported by every plugin.

• ANT (included in Java Development Tools aka JDT)
  Update site:  Galileo – http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo (included in Eclipse)
  Select Programming languages -> Eclipse Java Development Tools

  Apache Ant is a software tool for automating software build processes. It is similar to make but is implemented using the Java language, requires the Java platform, and is best suited to building Java projects.
  

• FDT3 (Development Tools for Flash)
  Update site: http://fdt.powerflasher.com/update/
  Update site beta version: http://fdt.powerflasher.com/update_beta/

  FDT 3 is the most powerful development environment for serious Flash and AS2/AS3 programming. With its highly efficient and time-saving features, FDT 3 will enhance your coding workflow and increase your productivity enormously.
  Try out FDT 3 and discover pure coding comfort.

  FDT is an amazing plug-in for the already mighty platform Eclipse. Thereby, it is platform independent and usable on nearly every system.

  With FDT 3, Eclipse turns into a powerful Flash and ActionScript editor with a workspace-wide incremental builder providing expend features like live error highlighting and quickfixes without compiling. Advanced code completion speeds up your workflow as well as auto code generation for variables, functions or even classes. The integrated formatter allows comprehensive and complex code customizing at any time. By the refactoring function, renaming of functions or classes at high project level becomes quite simple.

  For more, FDT integrates the Flex SDK Debugger into the Eclipse Debugging Perspective to provide the same debugging comfort as known from JDT and FlexBuilder

  See the list of all FDT features and take a look at the descriptions and the demonstrations of FDT’s power.
  

Tags: Actionscript 3, as3, Eclipse, FDT, Flash, ide

From the official website:

Flash Camp Birmingham is a completely free event organised by the Midlands Flash Platform User Group.

Over an afternoon and evening, experts in Flash, Flex and AIR will share their knowledge through presentations and talks. Come and meet the some of the Adobe team, Community Leaders and network with fellow developers and designers.

Whether you’re just getting started with the Flash Platform, or consider yourself a pro, there’s something for you!

This is the schedule:

• 13:00 | Keynote – Enrique Duvos (Adobe Systems)
• 13:30 | Getting started with Flex & PureMVC – Simon Bailey (Newtriks)
• 14:15 | Break, networking & registration for new arrivals
• 14:45 | Head first Flex 4 Component Development – Mike Jones (FlashGen)
• 15:30 | Skinning components with Degrafa & FXG – James Whittaker (RefreshingApps)
• 16:15 | Break, networking & registration for new arrivals
• 16:45 | Away3D and the future of 3D in Flash – Rob Bateman (Away3D)
• 17:30 | Rapid prototyping & motion design on mobile devices – Anthony & Jerome Ribot (Ribot)
• 18:15 | Break, networking & the bar’s open!
• 18:30 | Adobe On Tour: Presenting Flex 4 & Flash Catalyst (Adobe Systems)
• 19:30 | Panel: Everything you wanted to know about contracting & freelancing, but were scared to ask Q&A
  Stefan Richter (FlashComGuru), Ross Fleming (TEKSystems), Mike Jones, Simon Bailey
• 20:15 | Prize draws & closing presentation
• 20:30 | Event ends

To register visit the official website.
See you there!

Tags: Actionscript 3, adobe, as3, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flex

This update for Flash CS4 Professional (10.0.2) addresses issues related to compiling large projects. Specifically, it addresses stability and performance issues related to large animation files, such as timeline scrubbing and looping and nested movie clips, as well as text handling. For more details, read the technote. For more about this update from Richard Galvan, product manager for Adobe Flash Professional, visit Richard Galvan’s blog.

From the technote:

Issue addressed by the Adobe Flash CS4 Professional update (10.0.2):

Adobe Flash® CS4 Professional (10.0.2) addresses issues regarding the compiling of large project files as well as the following key issues:

• Performance issues when dragging objects on stage, scrubbing the timeline, entering symbol edit mode in large AS 2.0 and AS 3.0 files.
• Performance issues when opening large files or files with many nested symbols.
• Performance issues when working in the library such as scrolling, selecting items in the library, dragging item to stage, editing symbol from library.
• Several crashes involving creating a text field on stage and opening certain files.
• Graphic symbol looping setting changes when apply color effect to instance in Properties Inspector.
• gotoAndPlay("framelabel") compiles differently in CS3 versus CS4
• Put back the JSAPI that allows users to publish FLA files without opening them fl.publishDocument( flaURI [, publishProfile] );

Bugs fixed in this release:

1. AS2 Doc Crashes CS4 when buttons not rendered correctly
2. Auto Format beaks the code if encounters ++ or — with an array inside if statement
3. Clicking through movie clip with large preview takes long to select in the Library in AS 3.0 file
4. Scrubbing and pressing Enter to play timeline is not smooth, slower in AS3 documents
5. Width and Height of instance incorrect after frame 2 if apply tween to instance with filter
6. 3D tools appear incorrectly to a child movie clip when applying skew and rotation to the parent 2d movie clip.
7. Changing Width/Height for nested 2d>3d movie clip from Property Inspector does not work. After scrubbing the hot text, it snaps back to the original size.
8. Dragging from Library to Stage is slow in some files in CS4
9. Selecting items in the library is slow in CS4
10. Scrolling the library (vertical scroll bar) is slow compared to CS3
11. In a FLA with lots of library items, double clicking a symbol "in the edit mode" hangs Flash on Mac.
12. Library contents explode CS4 memory (CS3 sits at 75M)
13. Performance issue with Stagecore (AS 3.0 fla) – scrubbing, moving, altering objects.
14. Object visibility is compromised when created inside empty groups in AS 3.0 fla files.
15. Double clicking symbol or symbol name in library hangs Flash; library contains a lot of items
16. Text with device font disappears when it is selectable
17. Component parameters don’t work for scenes greater than scene 1
18. Selecting frames with textfields is a lot slower if the Components Inspector panel is opened
19. Empty maskee incorrectly renders mask invisible rather than visible
20. Crash when opening a FLA that uses a font symbol whose name was identical to the Postscript name of the underlying font (and the font is missing)
21. Optimize a section within a shape leaves gaps in the shape
22. Optimize opening and closing FLA files, frame manipulation for FLAs with many frames
23. Win only: Crash on exit when the text field is in edit mode and clicking X button to quit without save
24. Compiler errors when opening "Air Settings" while ADL still running.
25. (screens) Timeline playhead can’t scrub and jitters when playing anything that spans frames
26. gotoAndPlay("framelabel") compiles differently in CS3 versus CS4
27. Scrubbing the timeline and selecting frames is much slower in CS4 than in CS3
28. Crash when creating a text object on stage when there are corrupted fonts
29. Graphic symbol looping setting changes when apply color effect to instance in Property Inspector
30. Files with lots of nested clips suffer from performance issue (file open) in Flash CS4
31. Edit in Place of 2d objects which has 3d movieclips nested inside is not functioning correctly.
32. Edit in place is slow for complex instances in Flash Player 10 documents
33. Breaking apart a nested movie clip erases instance name of child movie clip
34. Efficient calculation between keyframes so dragging is faster and generally makes people happier if spans are long and complex.
35. AS3 Components not compiling correctly when using the Component Definition dialog
36. Windows Only: Flash crashes when double clicking a FLA to open while a current FLA is opened with text block selected
37. Can’t interact with Flash because modal dialog is up (but hidden behind the workspace) when switching between applications
38. From crash reporter: crash on Mac when double click to enter symbol edit mode (when the black dotted rectangle is drawn)
39. Mac IDE flashes when right-clicking on Library after doing Test Movie
40. Performance is slow after double clicking movie clip to enter edit mode and exit
41. Setting an instance’s width and/or height to 1 makes W and H hot text unusable in the vertical PI.
42. Hot text in the Vertical PI for X, Y, W, H displays only 1 decimal point while edit field displays 2
43. Export image: Dimension values in Export dialog and Vertical PI do not match which is misleading to user.
44. Crash when selecting text field on stage with many fonts on user’s system.
45. Text Property Inspector is stuck and some controls on the PI are not drawn with certain fonts on user’s system
46. The JSAPI that allows users to publish FLA files without opening them was inadvertantly removed when the Project Panel was deprecated.
47. "Export classes in frame" behavior is different in CS3 than in CS4
48. Drag and drop large nested symbol from library to stage hangs Flash
49. Dragging from Library to Stage slow on subsequent drag or after scrubbing the timeline
50. Scrubbing and pressing Enter to play timeline is not smooth, slower in AS3 documents
51. Width and Height of instance incorrect after frame 2 if apply tween to instance with filter
52. Large amounts of text nested in a symbol causes performance problems in non-AS3 documents
53. Playback in authoring is not smooth (playhead skips frames), cannot stop it when hitting enter, eventually hangs and takes long to respond (both AS 2.0 and AS 3.0)
54. Performance Creating Exported Symbol when the classpath contains lots of files and folder
55. Create ease, undo after first edit removes ease
56. Selecting and deselecting raw shape after convert to symbol spikes memory and/or crashes
57. FLA crash on open when fonts loaded
58. Mac only: User input resets to previous setting when attempting to change any value in Vertical PI input area
59. Accessing a Windows SWF after it has been moved or deleted crashes Flash
60. Crashing when re-opening FLA after cancelling publish
61. Crash in test movie when running a file with video and filters

You can download the update from here.

Tags: Flash, ide

In a couple of hours I’m going to listen Seb Lee-Delisle and Carlos Ulloa talking about Papervision 3D.

From the London Flash Platform User Group website:

Papervision3D, Simplified (19:00 – 20:00) – Seb Lee-Delisle
Finally! Realtime 3D in Flash is taking off and there has never been more demand for 3D games, apps and websites. And naturally, with such a powerful library comes somewhat of a steep learning curve.

This session will cover how to create 3D objects in code, import them from other 3D apps and even make a simple game.

We Make. You Enjoy (20:15 – 21:15) – Carlos Ulloa
Dive deep into the third dimension with the creator of Papervision3D and discover the secrets behind his latest interactive 3D experience, HelloEnjoy.com.

The session will focus on the techniques, workflow and planning necessary to overcome the creative and technical challenges of real time 3D in Flash, giving an inside view of the entire creation process, from concept and planning, to development and art production.

For more informations click here.

Bug Description
I was working on 2 open documents and I needed to copy a MovieClip from a library to the other. I clicked the “New library panel” button in the library but it throwed the error “Unable to open a new Library Panel. The limit of ten open Library Panels has been reached.”, and my opened Library Panel is only one. Closing and reopening the documents or create a new blank document didn’ fix the problem. So I closed and reopened Flash and it was throwing the same error. Then I closed Flash, Dreamweaver and Photoshop but after reopening Flash was the same situation.

I rebooted the computer but the error persisted. Then I tried to change the workspace and the problem disappeared. Switching back to my personalized profile throw the error.

How To Reproduce
My os is Windows XP SP3 with Flash CS4 Professional (with latest updates). I tried to recreate the same workspace but the error didn’t appear.

Workaround
Select Window -> Workspace -> Reset ‘your workspace name’ in the menù.

Tags: bug, Flash, ide