Comments on: Embedding whole SWFs in AS3

By: Iron Lion of Zion

Iron Lion of Zion — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:32:53 +0000

I have a lot of swf’s embedded this way and I need about 15 of them loaded at some point. What I’m doing is:

var counter = 0;
counter++;
x = new EmbeddedClass();
x.addEventListener(…, onCompleteFunc);
function onCompleteFunc(e : Event) : void
{
// do stuff with loaded data
counter–;
if (counter == 0)
// everything is loaded, notify main app driver
}

It works perfectly on slow, single-core machine, but on my personal one (2.4GHz dual-core – I think dual-core is most important) I receive only about half of notifications – it seems that data is loaded faster than I’m establishing listeners! Does anyone has any idea what can be done about it?

By: karmakat

karmakat — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:20:41 +0000

Hi,
I did find it useful that you walked us through your discovery process, but I am having issues producing working code with this, and it’s not entirely clear which lines I should leave in or out. Is there anyway we could see a complete example of this thats working and perhaps also accessing something in the embedded swf itself from flex or AS?

Thanks for your post!

By: John Grden

John Grden — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:52:34 +0000

Keith showed me this in Boston and I’ve used it tons since – I’ve not had any issues with this technique. I love the ability to embed assets like this. Embedding collada and bitmaps for Papervision stuff rocks

By: H. Melih Elibol

H. Melih Elibol — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:06:56 +0000

Ah… shake n’ bake swfs… I’m surprised no one has mentioned exporting swc’s from flash… Everything comes through strong typed. Excuse me Keith, I do understand that this post is just on what exactly happens when you embed a swf, but I thought I would add to the alternatives discussion by bringing swc’s to the readers attention…

By: tomsamson

tomsamson — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:52:52 +0000

another simple but powerful example for whatÂ´s wrong with the flash platform “evolution”
Take one of the most quick and simple things to do in older flash versions and add as many unnessecary levels of cumbersome to use complexity as possible until it almost feels like a special achievment to have accomplished a laughable task.

By: Christian Kragh

Christian Kragh — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:46:02 +0000

Just thinking about importing / embedding an external SWF triggers a red alarm light in my head. It’s always been a bit buggy and unstable – I’ve had some issues before, so now I’m kind of afraid of it. I stay away from importing / embedding external SWFs. But that sounds right. I thought it was funny, Keith, how you explained the whole scenario – you had a problem, went for answers but wound up back at the start (your blog), and solved it, but then decided to share it all with everyone. Yay. Hehe. Take care.

By: Sep

Sep — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:10:56 +0000

An other post on that topic…
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2007/03/using_flash_sym.html

By: Tink

Tink — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:27:15 +0000

James I’m pretty sure Keith will be referring to an AS 3.0 project. You can use the embed metadata in AS 3.0 projects.

Keith, looked at our library classes?

http://www.tink.ws/blog/library-librarymanager/

By: supabok

supabok — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:29:10 +0000

Ahhh…thank God for you( and Moock !!

By: James Allen

James Allen — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:49:40 +0000

So, I take it this is a flex project? I’m used to AS3 in Flash, but have never used the [embed] tag. Sorry if this is a uninformed question