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From: "Thomas Higgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > And what about... gXML = new("XML")?
>
> Yup. I chose not to explicitly mention all objects by name, the list is
long.

Interesting. I take it that this means you could put a stub swf with no
content in your Director movies as a factory for spawning XML parser objects
that work properly? This might be a good thing...

In fact, do you even need an embedded Flash asset to access the Actionscript
object library, or can you just drop them into your code wherever you want
them, like script Xtras? If so, how many other useful objects are there in
Flash that are currently missing from Director, or not working, that this
effectively fixes? How does the performance compare to native Director
objects, and are all the features generally compatible with Lingo (i.e., are
there any datatype conversion issues, etc.)?

On a related topic, one of the biggest questions I want answered about the
new tighter integration of Flash is whether we can now have as many Flash
sprites on the stage as we want without instantly crippling performance. For
instance, if we wanted to replace all our textboxes with Flash sprites for
Unicode support, would it work well enough to be practical?

- Robert

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