The SWF format is now totally open. Rejoice!

This is big: Adobe is removing restrictions on the use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications as part of their new Open Screen Project 2008.

When Mark Doherty emailed me to tell me about his post on Adobe's Open Screen Project 2008, I wasn't expecting such an important announcement.

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I've moved the common base classes for the framework to the actionscript folder in the root of the project. Add this folder to your class path in both Flash and Flex projects.

Note that your document class in Flash projects should extend org.gaeswf.flash.BaseApplication and your Application MXML in Flex should be of type org.gaeswf.flex.BaseApplication (if none of this makes any sense to you, see my Flex 3 Code Behind Quick Start.)

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Update: They're on it! :) In the meanwhile, the suggested workaround is to add debug=True to your template.render() methods (pass it as the third argument, i.e., after the context).

Update: As of 2.30pm (when I last checked), the app appears to be working again. I've made no changes whatsoever.

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I just released version 1.33 of The GAE SWF Project and, as tradition would have it, need to head to bed in the next few minutes lest I should expire.

The updates in a nutshell:

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I just updated The GAE SWF Project to version 1.21 1.23. New source code for the update is now available for download.

All changes in this version are server-side:

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