Troy Gilbert wrote: >> Yes, that's a very appealing architecture. We don't have Flash here, >> though, just Flex, and while we could track down Flash, install it (the >> University has a site license, but there's paperwork to get it), and >> learn to use it, I was hoping someone out there might be able to point >> me to such SWF's that already exist. I'd hate to reinvent the wheel for >> something that's been done so many times already. > > I did a bit of googling a while back for the same thing and wasn't > able to find any SWF throbbers. There's a website that'll generate > animated GIF throbbers (those of choice for the AJAX world), which is > very nice... if only Flash supported animated GIFs (which, > tangentially, raises the point of why does Flash not support GIF > animation? Patent issues?). > > Of course, you could grab a GIF throbber (great term, I've not heard > that before!) and then grab one of the several animated GIF components > for Flex (I believe ByteArray has a decent one, but I'm sure there are > others). Should be just a slight bump in code size for the GIF > animator then you can use any number of web-based throbbers.
Hi Troy, Thanks for the suggestion. I pursued this route for a little while (that's a neat site) but came up dry because I didn't want to pay for an animated GIF component (only one I found was payware) and the GIF to SWF converters I tried were all crummy. So, I took a couple of hours and implemented something I'm happy with. I've attached the code. Please share and enjoy (BSD license). Comments and suggestions are most welcome. Take care, Reid
Throbber.as
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