Oh, I'd be annoyed too.
I don't understand how Flash 8 managed to reach production without being bug-tested. I mean when you paste in an image it fucking pastes upside-down! How was this not noticed during testing? And do you know what happens if there's a typo in your script? The
entire script gets ignored, and it writes a message explaining the problem to the output window, followed by the usual 200 lines of size reports and so on to hide it, leaving you spending an hour trying to find out why it's ignoring your script.
Then, trying to get it to load an XML file from the server... I guess the player is broken too, because:
- In the IDE, it works (but of course I have to specify an absolute URL for the file).
- Accessed as a local file (through the filesystem), it works.
- Accessed through the local network (192.168.0.100), it works.
- Accessed through the Internet, it does NOT work, unless Proxomitron is running to log the headers for me.
The "fix" for this was to load the page with the Flash in it, then go to another page, then keep hitting Back and Forward several times. The more I did this, the more likely it was to work; now that I've done that, it works every time. WTF?
Streaming MP3s revealed another interesting bug. That worked fine, but when I deleted the MP3 file and put in a new one with the same name, magically it still read the old one. I had to rename it to get it to stop doing this.

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