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I've just finished a flash project where I did the entire project in "pure" AS3, without the use of the Flex framework. I found very little written about this on the web, so I'm not sure if this is a common way to develop RIA's, or if I've jumped off the shoulders of giants and done something stupid that will bite me later.

It seemed like a good idea at the time (famous last words!), but was hoping to hear from someone who could confirm.

Thanks,
Marcus

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There's nothing wrong with it. People do that every day using FlashDevelop and AS3-only frameworks like PureMVC. Doing a complex app without any framework to support may get difficult to support in the future, but should be OK if you adhere to well known best practices. Future maintainability, especially if it has to be maintained be someone else, can also be greatly improved by using common design patterns throughout your code and architecture. Barring all that, if you're really just slinging code to build something with any real complexity, you're probably screwed unless you documented every function and the overall architecture very very well. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but some day you're (or someone else is) screwed! ;)

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Loading a SWF into an ActionScript 3 project (Flex Builder)

What you need to use is an instance of the Loader class, like so:

var loader:Loader = new Loader();

// you'll need to write a method named onLoaded to capture the COMPLETE event
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoaded);

loader.load(new URLRequest("game.swf"));
addChild(loader);

Flash CS4 refuses to let go

Flash still has the ASO file, which is the compiled byte code for your classes. On Windows, you can see the ASO files here:

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash CS4\en\Configuration\Classes\aso

On a Mac, the directory structure is similar in /Users/username/Library/Application Support/

You can remove those files by hand, or in Flash you can select Control->Delete ASO files to remove them.

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Loading a SWF into an ActionScript 3 project (Flex Builder)

Flash CS4 refuses to let go

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