Flash CS3 and _exclude.xml
So I’ve been doing some Flash development lately, and I’ve spent over 4 days researching the best method of creating a CMS Flash website that is renewable.
Once of the things I’m really keen even when I’m doing normal web development is to minimise loading time and improve user experience. I found that there are methods to share common libraries in Flash, unfortunately most of the documentations lately have been focused in Flex.
For various reasons I’m not going to purchase Flex to develop this project. I hate how Adobe have split Flash into Flash CS3 IDE and Flex but I’ll come back to this another time.
Anyway, as I was saying I’ve found ways to use shared library between swf files in Flex, but not in Flash IDE. That is, until I found this amazing piece of work done by Matthew Tretter. Which basically brought _exclude back into Flash CS3!
It really shaved a lot of fat off my files, and whats great about it is that you only need to load the library in the root swf and then all child swfs will have access to the classes! (providing you give them the correct ApplicationDomain)
