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Flash Player Version Switcher

Alessandro Crugnola (Sephiroth) has put together this FireFox extension for switching player version on firefox. This is really useful for testing Express Install functionality and seeing how old players handle newer content.

Mac OS X / Windows Versions

November 5th, 2006 in: FireFox, Flash / 1 comment

Open Source Library

I’m currently putting together a library for release under a GPL license. It will include animation management classes, a core kernel and threading engine to remove the reliance on onEnterFrame events, and a debugging tool.

This lib is aimed at Flash Developers who predominantly work on animation intensive sites, rather than application development.

November 4th, 2006 in: Library, Open Source, ActionScript 2.0, Flash / 5 comments

XML Cache class

This is a class that I wrote quite a while back. It works just like Flash's XML Class, but if you try and load the same file / URL again, it will use the XML data stored in memory rather than reconnecting to the server.

Example:

PLAIN TEXT
Actionscript:
  1. import com.pixelbreaker.utils.XMLCache;
  2.  
  3. myXML = new XMLCache();
  4. myXML.load( 'anXMLfile.xml' ); // will load the file in
  5.  
  6. myXML2 = new XMLCache();
  7. myXML2.load( 'anXMLfile.xml' ); // will use previously loaded data.

The idea is simple, the XMLCache class extends XML, and has a static object called xmlCache, whenever an XML file is loaded, it's stored in the static object with the name exactly representative of the full filename/path passed to the load() method, then whenever it's called again, the data is pulled from the static object. Easy peasy!

Download it here.

November 4th, 2006 in: ActionScript 2.0, Flash / No comments

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