Comments on: How to embed a text file in Flash

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 23 May 2011 21:26:55 +0000

You could also do something like:

[Embed(source="words.txt",mimeType="application/octet-stream")]
private var embeddedWords:Class;
public var words:String = String(new embeddedWords as ByteArray);

By: Vojta

Vojta — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:18:15 +0000

Hi,
A small note on the tutorial -
you don’t need to create the embedded_class manualy, i’d rather consider creating it directly in the code (for better code organisation).

Here’s the example:

[Embed(source = '../../../assets/texty/who_am_i.txt', mimeType = 'application/octet-stream')]
private var src_who_am_i:Class
public function f_who_am_i():void
{
var text_source:ByteArray = new src_who_am_i() as ByteArray;
text_field.text = text_source.toString()
}

BR,
Vojta

By: How to use an embedded text file in Flash by Blam Yo!

How to use an embedded text file in Flash by Blam Yo! — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:45:10 +0000

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By: Alpesh Vaghasiya

Alpesh Vaghasiya — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:41:05 +0000

Same Here. I also try in Flash CS3 nothing is working.

By: How to use an embedded text file in Flash : Emanuele Feronato

How to use an embedded text file in Flash : Emanuele Feronato — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:23:28 +0000

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By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:19:58 +0000

When I tried it out nothing happened

I’m using Flash CS3

By: Radi

Radi — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:29:03 +0000

Hey, thanks for the info. this is really what I’m looking for! ^^

By: Idden

Idden — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:45:47 +0000

Nice Work around.
You gain speed but lose a flexibility. If you want to change the word list, you will have to compile the swf again.

@Roland It doesn’t work in AS2 but you can try swfmill to do somthing similar: http://swfmill.org/

By: Christopher Spence

Christopher Spence — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:07:39 +0000

HiddenSpartan: This works in Actionscript 3 without Flex Builder though it does require installation of the free Flex SDK, and a non Flash-IDE compiler (e.g., FlashDevelop, Command Line w/ ANT). I know that Flash CS3 did not support embed directives, though I understand that CS4 supports at least Font embedding… so maybe this works in Flash CS4?

I don’t imagine that an AS2 example exists; perhaps you could try using an include statement.

I used something similar to this for compressing xml into a swf (it’s like a 90% savings on file size when you enter the xml directly as a string in an AS class… it’s a bit less compression using the method described above, because the class compiles with a class or two from the mx package (where flex sdk comes in)

Anyhow, this is a cool and very under-documented trick.

By: Mike Chambers

Mike Chambers — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:34:21 +0000

@HiddenSpartan

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From what I’ve heard, that only works in Flex
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Flash CS4 uses the MXMLC compiler, so you can use the meta data tags / commands.