Posts Tagged ‘AS3’

Dec 9, 2008

AS3 - XML Include…

A while back now I needed to insert data from one xml file to another at runtime (in flash). After a failed search for something that would do it for me (in AS3 at least), I made this...

XIncludeXMLLoader

In the zip there's a FlashDevelop project set up with an example to get you started. There's no documentation at present, but it's fairly straight forward to use.
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Sep 8, 2008

Developing for FlashPlayer 10?

I've recently been testing out some of the new features available in FlashPlayer 10, building with FlashDevelop+FlexSDK (FD beta8 makes it easy to build for FP10 - yay) and running swfs in the standalone FP10 debug player.

All was well, but I soon found myself maxing out the cpu with some simple audio operations...

After a coule of tests I found the currently available debug players will execute code a lot slower than non-debug players, even hanging or crashing in some cases.

So, use the FP10 release candidate plugin from adobe labs for faster code execution - but no debugging...

Aug 1, 2008

AS3 Design Patterns

I recently stumbled apon this rather useful site - http://www.as3dp.com/ - useful if you're a Actionscript 3.0 developer that is.

"This blog continues the discussion that started with our book; ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns published by O’Reilly Media. Reusable design patterns are an ideal way to solve common problems in Flash, Flex and AIR applications..."