Hi Abdul, Ok, so this is intended behaviour. But then the xml file shouldn't be copied into the bin (output) directory, as it's already embedded in the swf file? The fact that it _was_ copied into the bin directory led me to believe that it wasn't embeded in the first place.
Regards, and thanks for the quick replies! Jan L. Nauta > -----Original Message----- > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Abdul Qabiz > Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 00:20 > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] xml files embedded in swf? > > Hi Jan, > > This is not a strange behaviour. <mx:Model />, <mx:XML /> etc are compiler > tags, which means content inside them (or linked) would be compiled in the > SWF. It is well documented and it has been the same in Flex 1.5 as well. > > You use @Embed (..), <mx:XML />, <mx:Model /> when you want to compile the > assets with-in the final SWFs. > > As Harish said, if you want to load content/assets on runtime, you should > consider other available APIs/tags, f.ex. <mx:HTTPService />, <mx:Image /> > without @Embed in source attribute, <mx:Loader /> etc > > Does that make sense? > > -abdul > > > On 2/27/06, Jan L. Nauta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Harish, > > Is there a reason for this strange behaviour? Normally I have to add > @embed > explicitely... Also what is the limitation on the size of the xml > embeded in > the swf? > > Regards, > > Jan L. Nauta > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Harish Sivaramakrishnan > > Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 15:05 > > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] xml files embedded in swf? > > > > Hi > > > > <mx:XML> tag always embeds the xml at compile time, > > hence there is also a limitation to the size of the > > xml that you can load on to the swf. In order to read > > an xml data at run time you could use > > <mx:HTTPService id="serv" url="my_xml" > > resultFormat="xml" result="foo()"/> > > > > You could write ur logic in function foo() and use the > > loaded xml data. > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > Harish. > > Flex-QA > > Adobe India. > > > > --- "Jan L. Nauta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > Hi, > > > > (Flex 2.0 Beta 1) > > > > I noticed that xml files are always embedded in the > > generated .swf file??? > > > > <mx:XML id="my_xml" source=" my.xml" format="e4x"/> > > > > I thought it would work like images, so unless you > > embed it explicit it > > would be an external resource. The xml file even got > > copied to the bin > > directory, but the swf still uses it's 'internal' > > version... > > > > Regards, > > > > Jan L. 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