MochiBot Blog

The adoption of the Flash 8 player has been picking up steam and one of the biggest effects on Flash developers has been related to the Flash 8 player security model. The issue we’ve seen most often has been the warning message that is presented to users when playing a SWF locally with MochiBot in it. In order to address this issue we’ve released a new version of the MochiBot code along with some improvements to the core SWF. The new MochiBot code will prevent MochiBot from tracking local views when the networking privelege is not enabled. If you want to enable networking priveleges in your Flash content you must either publish with Flash 8 or use the Local Content Updater that Macromedia provides.

Now on to the new and improved features that you’ll see:

• MochiBot Code version 5 - The new MochiBot code has been improved for better Flash 8 compatibility and performance. All of the SWFs with prior versions of the MochiBot code will still continue to work as usual.
• Multiple MochiBots in one SWF - You can now use multiple MochiBots in one SWF to track different events or different SWFs being loaded into a container.
• Total views - The SWF Detail page now shows you the total number of views your SWF has received.
• Animated MochiBot logo - We added a download of the animated MochiBot logo to the Create MochiBot and MochiBot Code pages.
• New graph legend - We got rid of the graph legend on the Dashboard and replaced it with color coded SWF names when you select a SWF to be displayed in the graph

As always let us know what you think about MochiBot. What do you love about it? What do you hate about it? What features would you like to see in our upcoming builds? What would you change about MochiBot?