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Olin Kirkland
Olin Kirkland

Reputation: 545

AS3 - Uploading flash games to sites. Embedding?

I am developing a flash game and want to upload it to a site. The game has a bunch of text files (~200) that are read in for different purposes (Maps, characters, quests, etc).

Can the text files be embedded in the FLA?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 160

Answers (1)

Vesper
Vesper

Reputation: 18747

Embed something in FLA? Google says the syntax is as of FlashDevelop, that is, 

[Embed(source="relative/path/to/file.ext",mimeType="mime/type")]
const embeddedClass:Class;

So, for text files use relative path, and mimeType can be either "application/octet-stream", with the resultant class be a ByteArray (but you still declare the const as type Class), or "text/plain" (FlashDevelop does not have this available, so no experience, I expect that if this will work, the result will be of type String). After you do an embed, you can access your embedded data via simple 

var yourData:YourType = new embeddedClass();

Of course, that "YourType" should be compatible, otherwise you'll get type coercion error. For ByteArrays (and text files) use String, since there is a ByteArray.toString() method that retrieved the data as a string, which is what you seemingly need. The data will be available instantly.

From here.

Upvotes: 1

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