…ok, well the standalone player anyway. I’d got the impression from the release notes that the new Flash beta simply couldn’t do fullscreen on Linux, but I was reading it wrong. The browser plugin can’t, but the standalone goes fullscreen just fine, shouldn’t be hard to get this working for the final release…sweet.

Hadn’t had time to look at it before, but the standalone player even includes a few extras I don’t remember from widows, a URL entry field and a Bookmarks menu…

Must say it’s a lot nicer than I had expected, it even has a working ‘create projector’ option to make standalone binaries, although they’re not all that svelt at around 6mb for the base package…

There’s some reviews and pictures up of the info from the Adobe Keynote, sounds like they showed some interesting things including Flash9 on linux.. wohoo!

Perhaps the most interesting thing there sounds like the new ‘Copy Motion as ActionScript 3′ functionality, allowing you to turn a timeline animation into an exact code representation. This could be a great timesaver and reduce a lot of the niggling quality issues when working with design heavy flash sites.

Ubuntu just keeps getting better!

It took some messing around but I’ve now got Flex2 Builder working as a plugin in Eclipse (no visual editor but code hinting’s fine), MXMLC compiling, and Flash Player 9 installed in Firefox (through WINE) for testing the end result… of course there’s gotta be a million ways of improving the process but I was kind of shocked it worked at all

check the vid (or download it to see a much more readable full size version)…