[Laszlo-dev] workaround for (in)famous http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-40

[Raju Bitter]

Sebastian, that's great! Does the "@" sign work as well? I know that  
the problem for German Umlaute can be fixed?

Thanks,
Raju

On Sep 10, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Henry Minsky wrote:

> That's great, thanks! I wonder if we should have a browser  quirk  
> detector that applies this
> patch in the SWF LFC's if it detects the user is operating in Linux?
>
> It looks like Adobe has been made aware of the urgency of fixing  
> this in the player so
> hopefully this will get fixed in the next Flash player release, at  
> least.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Sebastian Wagner <seba.wagner at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> There is this old wired bug in Flash Player
> http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-40
>
> that keeps many Linux Users away from using Flash cause they cannot  
> type their national characters.
>
> I found a workaround and applied it to a edittext.
> http://openmeetings.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/openmeetings_lps411/base/components/text/test-customEdittext.lzx
>
> Linux users reported that their input does now work as it should do.
>
> The patch is actually taken from:
> http://www.systemed.net/blog/?p=110 (and the long story http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/issues/detail?id=876 
> )
>
>
> sebastian
>
> -- 
> Sebastian Wagner
> http://www.webbase-design.de
> http://openmeetings.googlecode.com
> http://www.laszlo-forum.de
> seba.wagner at gmail.com
>
>
>
> -- 
> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com
>
>

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