Specifications

55ADOBE FLEX 3
Building and Deploying Adobe Flex 3 Applications
About FlashPlayerTrust files
Flash Player provides a way for administrative users to register certain local files so that they are always loaded
into the local-trusted sandbox. Often an installer for a native application or an application that includes many
SWF files will do this. Depending on whether Flash Player will be embedded in a nonbrowser application, one of
two strategies can be appropriate: register SWF files and HTML files to be trusted, or register applications to be
trusted. Only applications that embed the browser plug-ins can be trusted—the stand-alone players and standard
browsers do not check to see if they were trusted.
The installer creates files in a directory called FlashPlayerTrust. These files list paths of trusted files. This directory,
known as the Global Flash Player Trust directory, is alongside the mms.cfg file, in the following location, which
requires administrator access:
• Windows: system\Macromed\Flash\FlashPlayerTrust (for example,
C:\winnt\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashPlayerTrust)
• OS X: app support/Macromedia/FlashPlayerTrust (for example, /Library/Application Support/Macro-
media/FlashPlayerTrust)
These settings affect all users of the computer. If an installer is installing an application for all users, the installer
can register its SWF files as trusted for all users.
For more information about FlashPlayerTrust files, see http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash-
player/articles/flash_player_8_security.pdf.
About the Settings Manager
The Settings Manager allows the individual user to specify various security, privacy, and resource usage settings
for applications executing on their client computer. For example, the user can control application access to select
facilities (such as their camera and microphone), or control the amount of disk space allotted to a SWF file’s
domain. The settings it manages are persistent and controlled by the user.
The user can indicate their personal choices for their Flash Player settings in a number of areas, either globally
(for Flash Player itself and all applications built with Flash) or specifically (applying to specific domains only). To
designate choices, the user can select from the six tab categories along the top of the Settings Manager dialog box:
• Global Privacy Settings
• Global Storage Settings
• Global Security Settings
• Flash Player Update Settings
• Privacy Settings for Individual Websites
• Storage Settings for Individual Websites