SnippetRunner CommonInterface

I installed Acrobat 8 and the Acrobat 8 SDK and used the CommonInterfaceFX.swf with the SnippetRunner. It worked up until this week. Now, when I open CommonInterfaceFX.swf, I get no UI at all, just a blank page in IE with a small symbol for a broken app.
Then I uninstalled Acrobat 8, installed Acrobat 9, Acrobat 9 SDK and Adobe AIR. I ran Acrobat 9 and then the CommonInterfaceAIR.air. The Common Interface ran with a working UI but the UI showed no plugins, nothing but the documentation in one of the panels.
Then I uninstalled Acrobat 9 and re-installed Acrobat 8. Same issue with CommonInterfaceFX.swf.
I do the Acrobat work on a non-networked XP SP3 system. Nothing in the Event Viewer. Add or Remove Programs shows that I have Adobe Flash Player ActiveX installed.

When you installed 9 and the SDK 9, did you recompile the SnippetRunner project before trying to run the interface?

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Inside the .fr the name is formatted as multiple words separated by spaces matching the notation for AppleScript. The capitalization is just a different formatting for JavaScript. For your object, see SnipRun.fr line 1319, below the kSnipRunObjectScriptElement ID.
There are also plenty details in the sdkdocs, e.g. scriptable-plugin.pdf
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regards
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Hello,
> Please, excuse any ignorance below. I'm not well versed in the actual artistic side of Illustrator, just the implementation
excused because you're the one of the few people here who give thoe most usefull answers
> Isn't that to be expected though? From my admittedly limited understanding, the gradient being saved is really just a sequence of colour stops. I would have thought since the angle of the gradient is more of a property of how its applied to the path (or whatever) that it wouldn't make sense to save it on the gradient colour.
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ASErr result = kNoErr;
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