We thought it would be better to give this hint to our customers before the questions start coming.

Flash Player 10 distorts sounds sampled higher than 44KHz when using the loadSound function within AS2 – which is the version of ActionScript we used to create our file.

The solution is simple, encode your files to a value lower than 44KHz. You can read more about this issue here:

http://www.blackcj.com/blog/2009/01/30/flash-player-10-48khz-sound-playback-bug/

Hope this additional info helps in case you found yourself having issues with your sound files and the Flash Mp3 Player.

Here at Flabell headquarters we had a list of over 80 bugs from our QA Team and the feedback received from our customers.

We appreciate all your input, as in the list made room some new functionality too, which we implemented for the next update (as a download button for songs, more information about an artist, changes in the layout and functionality). We are updating the product on Monday (23rd March), and if you have downloaded the file, you will receive an email notifying you of the update.

I want to let everybody know that each product is a “work in progress” which means we plan to update the products in cycles, so your feedback on any product is welcomed, as it will go to a list of tasks we take very seriously. We’ve planned a HUGE advertising campaign for the year in progress, and we’re looking forward to growing our products list and our user base. Watch out for flash bells! :)

I thought I should cover this issue on this article, as we’ve had a lot of clients who happened to write back complaining of missing text. To start with, you should know – the client is the issue, not the missing text. :)

Before you decide to write me back and argue on that, please give me a chance to explain myself.

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If you ever need to use HTML text read from XML to present it in a flash content you need to respect the following:

1. The html text needs to be nested in a CDATA tag inside the XML file like this:

<item><![CDATA[ Dummy text <br>
Dummy text <br> ]]></item>

2. The textfield that is going to be used to show the text needs to have the property html set to “true” and write the text in the htmlText property like this:

textField.html = true;

textField.htmlText = “text”;

3. The most important: if you are programming in AS2 it is mandatory to read the text from the XML tag using “firstChild.nodeValue” like this:

var htmlTextFromXML : String = node.firstChild.nodeValue;  // the read text will be “Dummy text <br> Dummy text <br>”

If you use only “firstChild“, the html tags will be interpreted and their special characters like “<” will be converted:

var htmlTextFromXML : String = node.childNodes[i].firstChild;  // the read text will be “Dummy text &lt;br&gt; Dummy text &lt;br&gt; ”

I hope this hint will help you to use much better the XML files in Flash developping.

You can download the source files for this tutorial from here.

After a lot of thinking and feedback received, we decided to simplify the concept we use for Flabell. We are working on three major changes:

• a better deal for buyers
• not locking products
• removing the keys concept

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