Comments on: Embedding Assets in an AS3 Only Project

By: Asset

Asset — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:57:46 +0000

Nice post. Keep it up.

By: Iain

Iain — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:39:39 +0000

You can also embed vector graphics from SVG files this way.

By: urbansquall

urbansquall — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:18:30 +0000

That’s correct. It would be good to have a reusable app to do the spidering. Might be worth doing an article about that in the future.

By: MrBob

MrBob — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:01:40 +0000

Hi urbansquall, thanks for the reply. By trace do you mean you simply retrieved the files absolute path and setup the embed path relative to a central .as file in your app? I am thinking I’ll just do something similar to yourself and write a command line app that will output a simple class definition with all the assets of a certain type included.

By: urbansquall

urbansquall — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:31:47 +0000

I cheated. I used a hacked together AIR app to spider the directories and trace the appropriate embed statements that I then just copy pasted into the source file. It’s not the best solution in the world, but it works.

By: MrBob

MrBob — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:35:38 +0000

Hi there. Nice article, thanks for putting it up. I'm currently using Flex 3 + AS3 to write a small game, and there's one thing I wish I could do: automatically pre-generate embeds from all images in my asset directory. I will probably have quite a few images in the future, and would like an artist or the like to just be able to drop an image file into the requisite directory, compile in flashdevelop which will run a pre-compile 'embed' meta data generation step. This pre-gen step could regenerate my AssetLoader class which currently contains a few Embeds that I did myself.

Do you know of any way to do this easily, or shall I write my own tool to auto-magically pre-instance this Embed meta data?

By: micky

micky — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:57:19 +0000

maybe this is linux-related but the example works much better if the sound is instanciated once in the constructor rather than each time playConstructionSound is called

By: Helpful Flash Tutorials | XlanderSoftware

Helpful Flash Tutorials | XlanderSoftware — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:33:30 +0000

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By: Panayoti

Panayoti — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:38:25 +0000

If I understand what you’re describing, you’re talking about subclips within a clip you have instantiated on the stage, manually by dragging? That does make things a little less black and white, but it is certainly still doable. The thing I’d suggest there is instead of using your custom class as the Document Class, instead instantiate it on a frame in the .fla and add it to the stage. This should work just fine unless you’re doing code that requires a reference to the stage inside the constructor of the class you’re now manually adding to the stage.

By: michaelangela

michaelangela — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:43:24 +0000

Ah this sounds good. I understand it conceptually but I’ll have to go from concept to code.

Currently I use the Flash file Document Class to set the main class of the app. The main components are on the Flash stage. With the setup you describe, perhaps it would be better to make the app a symbol and have that linked to the main class instead of the document itself. Would that make this process easier?

Thank you for sharing your expertise!

Michael