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This one had me stumped for some time trying to get External Interface to work properly in Internet Explorer (IE) when it was working fine in Firefox.  While attempting communication between actionscript and javascript I would get a javascript error 'Unspecified error - line 49 char 5' which seemed to be in the function __flash__addCallback.
 

Hot on the heels of the last post announcing Flash on iPhone, here is some information about how Flash actually works on the iPhone.  
 

Hot off the press from Adobe is this latest press release announcing that later this year developers will be able to use Adobe CS5 to produce applications for the iPhone.
 

Problem:
Most computers today should be powerful enough to handle normal/high quality flash games, but in some cases we are still required to have a "Low Graphic Quality" option, and this is where the problem occurs.
 
Normally when we set dynamic text by using:
  myTextField.embedFonts = true;
  myTextField.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED
 
We can then load and set text to the text field dynamically (from XML or wherever).
 

The highly anticipated iTouch game Rolando 2 finally went live just before 2pm PST today (which is 9am on the 3rd of July NZ time!) to a huge collective sigh of relief!
 

The latest update to our cool puzzle game Sheepish was recently accepted by Apple, and the first stats are in.
 
Amongst the changes that went through in this iteration is a 'More Games Panel' (MGP) that replaces the 'About' button on the home screen.  The MGP is loaded dynamically from the server when it is accessed and shows details about our latest games and happenings.