The SpriteRegPoint Class is designed to mimic this feature in flash:

var squareBox:Sprite = new Sprite(); 
squareBox.graphics.beginFill(0xFF0000); 
squareBox.graphics.drawRect(0,0,100,100); 
var centeredSprite:Sprite = new SpriteRegPoint("C"); 
centeredSprite.addChild(squareBox); 
addChild(centeredSprite); 
centeredSprite.rotation = 45; 

ULVideoPlayer consumes UltraLoader ULVideo assets with ease. It is easily skinnable.

ULVideoPlayer currently works with progressive download videos only. In the future it will work with streaming videos.

If you want to forgo the use of UltraLoader you can manually set up a
ULVideo Object and add it to the ULVideoPlayer like in the code sample below:

var nC:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nC.connect(null);

var ulVideo:ULVideo = new ULVideo();
ulVideo.src = "video/videofile.flv";

ulVideo.netStream = new NetStream(_.$video.netConnection);
ulVideo.netStream.bufferTime = 7;
ulVideo.netStream.checkPolicyFile = false; // true or false
ulVideo.netStream.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, _.IOError_Listener, false, 0, true);
//var onNetStatus:Function = function (e:NetStatusEvent):void { /*trace("Net Status:" + ' ' + e.info.code + ' ' + e.currentTarget.client.name);*/ }
//ulVideo.netStream.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, onNetStatus, false, 0, true);

ulVideo.netStream.client = new Object();
ulVideo.netStream.client.name = "videoName";
ulVideo.netStream.client.onCuePoint = function(...P):void{};
ulVideo.netStream.client.onMetaData = function(meta:Object):void{_.$video[videoId].metaData = meta;};
ulVideo.netStream.client.onPlayStatus = function(...P):void { };

ulVideo.video = new Video(320, 240);
ulVideo.video.smoothing = true;
ulVideo.video.attachNetStream(ulVideo.netStream);

var ulVideoPlayer:ULVideoPlayer = new ULVideoPlayer(ulVideo);
ulVideoPlayer.tFormat = new TextFormat("Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif", 12, 0xFF0000);
ulVideoPlayer.mainColor = 0xFF0000;
ulVideoPlayer.scrubberColor = 0xFF0000;
ulVideoPlayer.volumeBarFull = 0xFF0000;
ulVideoPlayer.updateSettings();

ulVideoPlayer.changeVideo(ulVideoOtherVideoNotSetInExample);
ulVideoPlayer.tFormat = new TextFormat("Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif", 12, 0x6666FF);
ulVideoPlayer.mainColor = 0xFF00FF;
ulVideoPlayer.scrubberColor = 0xFF00FF;
ulVideoPlayer.volumeBarFull = 0x00FF00;
ulVideoPlayer.updateSettings();

addChild(ulVideoPlayer);

Note for the example below: Keep in mind accurate seeking with flash video is only as good as the number of keyframes in your video file. Unfortunately the video file in the example below has very few keyframes.

View the ULVideoPlayer Project.

View the ULVideoPlayer Documentation.

View the ULVideo Ojbect Documentation.

Download Source Files For the Example Below.

SWFSEOLite is a a lightweight version of the SWFSEO framework. It uses UltraLoader to load all asset types.

Use SWFSEOLite if you only need to load in asset types that are SEO friendly (stored on your html page), this includes textfields, htmlfields, strings, xml, images etc.

Use SWFSEO if you want to have multiple deep linked “pages” (using SWFAddress), navigation controls, and flash fullscreen scrollbars.

View a working example of the SWFSEOLite.

View the SWFSEOLite Project.

Download the source files.

Below is an example of SWFScroll, a scrollbar library for as3.

SWFScroll can also be used to mimic browser scrollbars in flash.
View this example in a new window, to see how the browser scrollbars operate in a seperate window.

Download the source files

AS3 allows you to set the value to an instance variable in its declaration. This can be a value of any type, a string, an int, an object, even another instantiated class. If an instance variable will definitely be used in every instance, it makes to set it’s value in the declaration – as opposed to setting it in the constructor. This makes no difference in memory usage or performance, but it makes things a little easier to read – and saves you from that extra line of code.

In other words, you can do this:

package{
     public class Foo{
          private var sayHello:SayHello = new SayHello("Hello World");

          public function Foo(){

          }
     }
}

Instead of doing this:

package{
     public class Foo{
          private var sayHello:SayHello;

          public function Foo(){
               sayHello = new SayHello("Hello World");
          }
     }
}

A word of caution: I have found there is one case where you have to be careful with this type of syntax. And that is when you embed fonts in a textField. You need to make sure you unembed them before you set your instance eligible for garbage collection. Otherwise certain browsers will crash when the instance is destroyed.

Therefore, before you set your instance to be eligible for garbage collection, set all the textFields that use embedded fonts to false.

To recap, make sure you call a method like clean() before you set your instance of Foo to be eligible for garbage collection:

package{
     import flash.text.TextField;
     import flash.text.TextFormat;

     public class Foo{
          private var tf:TextField = new TextField();

          public function Foo(textStr:String){
               tf.text = textStr;
               tf.embedFonts = true;
               tf.setTextFormat(new TextFormat("FunkyFont", 23));
          }
          public function clean():void{ // call before setting elligible for gc
               tf.embedFont = false;
          }
     }
}

The class instantiating Foo

package{
     import flash.display.Sprite;

     public class Bar extends Sprite{
          private var foo:Foo = new Foo("Hello World");

          public function Bar(){
               addChild(foo);

               removeChild(foo);
               foo.clean();
               foo = null;
          }
     }
}

///*
var userName:String = "testname";
var userPass:String = "testpass";
//*/

/*
var userName:String = userNameTF.text;
var userPass:String = userPassTF.text;
//*/

• Preloads in any type of flash asset, including some special cases like: font swfs and policy files.
• Provides robust sound and video objects.
• Organizes loaded assets into several ordered collections. This allows for easy access and easy looping of assets
• Data can be loaded in one or multiple batches

• Search engine friendly content
• Scrollable pages (see example of a scrollable page)
• Multilevel navigation (see example multilevel navigation)
• Easy page tracking
• The ability to update content without recompiling your flash
• SWFAddress functionality (deep-linking, ability to bookmark, back button and forward button functionality)