Comments on: Embed Almost Anything in Your SWF

By: Isaac Ewing

Isaac Ewing — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:44:13 +0000

Dude, this article is old as hell and yet, it’s easily one of the most helpful articles I’ve read in a long time!!! The mime type as a bytearray saved me so much time. Thank you so much for sharing.

By: jksnu

jksnu — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:55:57 +0000

Very nice material about embed tag. I am using a xml file like

and tried to embed it with code like
[Embed(source="XML/Test.xml", mimeType="text/xml")]
var miximizeImg12:Class;

I got error like
Syntax Error: There should be semicolon befor height.

Then I change the mime-type of the embed tag like
[Embed(source="XML/Test.xml", mimeType="application/octet-stream")]
var miximizeImg12:Class;

and the errors are removed.

So, I think second option is better to use with xml files.

By: dave

dave — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 19:56:46 +0000

I was having an issue with embedding xml and figured out that the path to the xml is not the same as if you were dynamical loading images or something like that. As it loads the xml or what ever your loading at compile time the path is from you class to the xml or what ever your loading on your os. so for me it was ../../resources/my.xml and my class being in com/classes/myclass.as . hope this helps someone.

By: Judah

Judah — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:25:56 +0000

This is what I had to do to embed my XML file:

[Embed(source="verses.xml", mimeType="application/octet-stream")]
public static const EmbeddedXML:Class;
public var verses:XML = new XML(new EmbeddedXML());

By: James Lin

James Lin — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:28:53 +0000

Thanks Roberto! Your trick worked for me in FlashDevelop!

I was getting an error “does not extend the ‘DefineBinaryData’ asset base class ‘flash.utils.ByteArray’.” when I tried to load it as a ByteArray.

By: Roberto Gazulo

Roberto Gazulo — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:36:00 +0000

Found an awesome post about Embedding Asset at Compile Time in >> Pure AS3 << Project :
http://nascode.com/2010/02/01/embedding-asset-at-compile-time-in-pure-as3-project/

By: Roberto Gazulo

Roberto Gazulo — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:12:55 +0000

Hi Roger, this snippet didn’t work for me in flashdevelop

var x:XML = XML(new EmbeddedXML());
trace(x.toXMLString()); //it should work!

to make it work I had to change it to:

[Embed(source = 'test.xml')]
private var EmbeddedXML:Class;

var x:XML = EmbeddedXML.data as XML;
trace(x.toXMLString()); //works!!

.data is the trick!

By: paco lopez

paco lopez — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:53:18 +0000

heres a list of available mimeTypes

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=embed_3.html

By: Yuki

Yuki — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:34:25 +0000

I just want to add something.
mimeType octet-stream also could open .txt file (in case your input isn’t xml but plain text) and it works even if you load them as String and not ByteArray.

Nice tutorial :)

By: Aidan Fraser

Aidan Fraser — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:53:50 +0000

Hey, don’t forget about Endianness – Flash’s default Endian is BIG_ENDIAN, which is wrong for many binary data files, and might lead you to think that it’s corrupted or something…

By: Using binary data in Actionscript 3 « Shide and Prame

Using binary data in Actionscript 3 « Shide and Prame — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:51:17 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:29:59 +0000

Thanks for the great tutorial on this! I like to make games and use XML to store some data, like weapons and levels, and this way I can compile to one SWF and not have to worry about whether or not the SWF can load the XML files from my server, or another server or w/e.

By: Pat Ferguson

Pat Ferguson — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:33:49 +0000

This is Awesome!!! I successfully embedded an Amiga MOD file into a swf and played it back using Flod Pro.

Thank You so much for this fantastic bit of info!

By: Dawid

Dawid — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:59:55 +0000

This will work:

[Embed(source="level4.xml", mimeType="application/octet-stream")]
private static const Level4:Class;
private static const _LEVEL4:XML = XML(new Level4());
static public function get LEVEL4():XML { return _LEVEL4; }

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