ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

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Appendix C: Backward Compatibility and Player Build Updates

• An event sound attached to a Sound object now stops playing when there are no

more references to the Sound object.

• Large media (video or MP3 content) no longer causes the Player to lock up.

Updates to Flash Player 5, Build 41 and 42

The following list summarizes the major changes that were made in Build 41

(Netscape) and 42 (Internet Explorer) of Flash Player 5 (the previous public build

was 30, initially released with the Flash 5 authoring tool in August 2000):

• I-beams in text fields take on the color of the text.

• Movies in a table cell do not cause Internet Explorer 5.5 to crash.

• A text field’s scroll position does not reset when field’s content is modified.

• Text fields with embedded fonts do not leak outside their visual boundary when

scrolled.

• The

XML.contentType property was added.

• The

XML.ignoreWhite property was added.

• When XML source is parsed and the characters

&, ', ", <, and > appear in a text

node, they are converted to the following entities:

&amp;, &apos;, &quot;, &lt;,

and

&gt;. This conversion is transparent in Flash because the entities are con-

verted back to characters when an XML object is converted to a string; however,

the entities will show up in XML source sent to the server.

• Math.random( ...