Flex behavior difference between PC Vs Mac

I encountered a strange behavior with my Flash player (I am running 10,0,32,18 on both PC and MAC) where in there is a subtle difference between its behavior on a MAC vs on a PC.
I have a large application where I have a chalk board canvas that sits on top of other canvases and elements so that I can doodle on the chalkboard so that I can annotate say a picture that lies below the chalkboard canvas.
Under a same specific action in my application, the visibility for my chalkboard canvas goes away on my MAC as opposed to on a PC, in which it is visible.
Has anyone encountered such differences between flash players on these two platforms? I woudl appreciate any insight. Thanks, Ramesh

Thanks for sharing. May be I am not imagining this :-) I am wondering if such errant behavior might be due to events misfiring in a MAC. I have observed another instance where the event from a child pop up window does not show up on the parent, but occasionally does (I do understand from teh documentation that in the case of popup, the event will show up only when the listener is systemManager). It would be great if an Adobe engineer who is monitoring this forum can dig into this further.. Thanks, Ramesh

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Allan Eckert wrote:
While some have managed to hack things so that they can install OS X on a PC, the results have been not very reliable. Generally OS X has many part that do not function properly.
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This is probably why for a time in 2007 the 'fastest Windows notebook on earth' was a MacBook Pro, as tested by PC World, a fact touted for a while in Apple TV ads. (It lost that title to a more conventional Wintel laptop about a month later, but the new champ cost over $5000, had "almost nonexistent" battery life, & weighs over 11 pounds, which should give you some idea of the advantages an Intel-Apple collaboration has over the competition.)

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What is the difference between On My Mac calendars and icloud calendar. I would like just one system to be on both my iphone and MacBook.

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I want to reserve a static IP address on my Airport extreme. What is the difference between reserving by MAC Address and DHCP Client ID?

I want to understand the differences in the way you can reserve a static address for a device on the network. I had previously set the device itself to an address and then reserved it with DHCP Client ID, which I thought was just the devices static addresss. I'm not sure if this was in fact correct or just happend to work. I know what a MAC address is, but I'm not really sure what the DHCP Client ID is. So it would be great if someone could clarify it, and the difference between reserving address by MAC Address or DHCP Client ID.

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xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
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Maybe you could help me with a related question. The last few days I have been searching for alternatives to builing my apps in InDesign, and I turned to Dreamweaver. I copied the CSS from InDesign to dreamweaver, fixed the content and made my app work through my 1 phonegap build-project (the InDesign version looked better, though) - but getting on fra Dreamweaver to Android and iOS involves Phonegap.
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Flex 4 Difference between getPreferredBoundsWidth and getLayoutBoundsWidth

Hi,
I've been reading about layouts, saw some examples, read the ILayoutElement API and I still don't understand what's the difference between (lets take for example) getPreferredBoundsWidth and getLayoutBoundsWidth? When would one use one and when the other ? Please explain, thanks !

Hi,
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What is the difference between Windows and Mac formating?

Hello guys!
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I'm just moving from Entourage to iCal. I didn't import my Entourage data into iCal; I just opened the calendar created by Entourage in iCal. I assume this is fine and I can rename this calendar to something other than the default "Entourage" and keep working in it, without the need to import data?
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What I'm confused about is that, when creating a new calendar in iCal I get the options: "On My Mac" and "MobileMe". I don't get it; if my calendar syncs with MobileMe, what's the difference?
Can someone please stop my brain hurting.
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Thanks for the reply. The To Do folder in Mail has two sub-folders: "On My Computer" and "MobileMe". All the To Dos from my regular iCal calendar already appear in the "On My Computer" sub-folder, and they end up in the calendar at MobileMe, so there's no need for a 'MobileMe'-type calendar there.
You're right that To Dos created in Mail require a 'MobileMe'-type calendar to appear in iCal, but why wouldn't you just switch to iCal to create a To Do?
Where there is a difference, though, is that it works in the other direction: To Dos created in a 'MobileMe' calendar in iCal, end up in the "MobileMe" To Do sub-folder in Mail and items in this folder get synced to the "Apple Mail To Dos" folder on the iPhone, whereas those in the "On my Computer" sub-folder don't. (I verified this).
This appears to be a solution to the lack of a To Do app on the iPhone. As far as I can see, I can: export my iCal calendar; create a new 'MobileMe' (i.e. not 'On My Computer') calendar; import my exported data into this calendar and use it in place of the current calendar. As far as I can see everything will behave exactly as it does now with the exception that my To Dos will now appear in the "MobileMe" To Dos sub-folder in Apple Mail instead of the "On My Computer" one, and this means that they will now sync to the "Apple Mail To Dos" folder on the iPhone.
But if it were this simple, there wouldn't be people all over the net complaining about the lack of a To Do list on the iPhone, and other people writing apps to fill the demand. And what is the point of the 'On My Computer'-type calendar in the first place? I must still be missing something. :-\
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HP Envy Here: http://tinyurl.com/bb-hp-envy
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Mac Pro Memory expansion here: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Mac-Pro-Memory#1333-memory
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With the Mac Pro, you can add additional graphics cards, and you can power up to twelve displays (if you wish). You also have a much more powerful processor on the Mac Pro (one quad-core, or up to two 6-Core Intel Xeon processors). So the Mac Pro a much more powerful machine.
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Well, that's the problem:
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