RShieldsLab

A few years ago I was working on an installation making little flash projector clients to be installed at a children's museum. A few days later I was preparing for a presentation, double-clicked a swf file, and it opened in, surprisingly enough, the kiosk client projector I'd published a few days later. Confused, I quit and launched it again. Same results. What was happening was that the swf would open the projector file and then open the swf in an additional window. Since I was working in Flash, installing applications for museums and kiosks, the problem grew worse and worse as I published more and more .app's. I grew used to having to right-click any swf I wanted to open, select "Open With...", scroll waaaaay down the list of prototype and final applications that I'd published until I got to the Flash Player, make sure I was selecting the correct one (the most recent player), and opening the swf. Double click was completely broken, even if I told OS X to associate all swfs with the player. It would always revert to opening in one of my applications.