FlashHunter is a neat Eclipse plug-in I wrote that allows you to kill all running Flash player instances with a single click. Two days ago I was implementing the fast Fourier transformation in Flash and I had a stupid error that caused an endless loop. Since I am testing with the standalone player the only way to get rid of it was Ctrl+Alt+Del and killing it. This is not really a nice workflow so I wrote the plug-in.
I am not a Java developer and definitly not an Eclpise platform developer so the plugin itself is very basic. I experimented a little bit with JNI and wrote most of the plugin in C++ because it still is my language of choice.
The plugin is Windows only. I think you could also do something like that as an external tool for OS X (”killall Flash\ Player”).
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…or my WinApi weekend. Someone at the office asked why the Flash player does not remember size and position. My answer was FDT would do it for you. But since we are not using it (arrg!) I asked the C++ gurus here what keywords I have to google for to do it on my own.
The result is FlashMate. Just download, unzip and start it. It will be completly silent (perfect for startup) and while FlashMate is running your player will remember size and position for SWF files individually. You can also disable FlashMate for certain files. Just right click on the titlebar and uncheck it.
Hope this nifty little thing will make your daily life a little bit easier. Ugly source code is included — I am not a good C/C++ coder at all but digging a little bit in the WinApi was fun. Now back to managed memory :)
Improvements and bug reports are more than welcome.
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