[Fling] Updated TypeResolver

[John Grden]

actually, I do this all the time with the blitz sites.  We have a
config.xmlfile and the entire site is laid out (SWF's, FLV's, Bitmaps
- all assets).
The heiarchy is completely spelled out by the config and is what the
TransitionManager (the next peice in our puzzle) uses to manage the elegant
loading/transitioning of parent/child SWF's.

Example:

let's say you have this loaded:

home.news.archives

And you want to now load:

home.games.gallery.xbox

TransitionManager will elegantly unload in order archives, then news then
preload everything needed for games.gallery.xbox.  You can also tell it to
preload assets FIRST , THEN transition everything out.

The xml also has information about bandwidth profiling and could even
provide localization support:

<asset type="movie" src="movies/home_%BANDWIDTH%" target="
main.containers.home" />
<asset type="movie" src="movies/home_%LANGUAGE%" target="
main.containers.home" />

So, since XML is really the universal layer, I say that's what we support -
however that XML is derived, who cares, as long as it meets the spec.

Make sense?

On 5/22/06, Grant Davies <grant at bluetube.com> wrote:
>
>  I'm wondering how useful it is to load a bunch of assets from an xml
> file... I can see if if you were writing an image viewer or something but
> not sure about every day use.  I know in all my projects I want a group of
> assets loaded on demand not really pre-determined by xml, are you sure
> you're not trying to fit a round peg in a square hole ?
>
> Grant
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Chris Allen [mailto:mrchrisallen at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Sun 5/21/2006 11:32 AM
> *To:* Grant Davies
> *Cc:* Fling at osflash.org; John Grden; Samuel Agesilas
> *Subject:* Re: Updated TypeResolver
>
>  On 5/19/06, Grant Davies <grant at bluetube.com> wrote:
> >
> > rock on dude, nice job, did you ever figure out that whole boolean
> isssue ?
> >
> Yep, I  sure did. Most of those problems were from using typeof
> instead of instanceof in the wrong places and the ordering of these.
> There was also the problem of me being a a dumb ass on occasion too.
> ;-) The unit test proved to be very useful to verify that all of the
> types are being determined correctly.
>
> > Let me know what you need me to work on next..
>
> Well, I was thinking that it would be great to work on getting
> AssetLoader to load via a configuration file (xml for example). So,
> with this in mind, we can take the Spring approach and work on a
> simple IoC setup. We will need a good class loader, another class that
> reads the xml file and a basic ApplicationContext implementation. Luke
> had made a start to this a while ago, I will be glad to share with you
> his implementation. In fact I will just post it in SVN in another
> section so you can see it on Monday morning. I would prefer to keep
> the same syntax that Spring uses for these files. e.g. <beans><bean>
> etc...
>
> Other obvious things that need to be finished are the other Assets.
> John is working on the Video/FLV asset and perhaps he can whip up the
> LoadVars one as well. I will finish the AssetManager class on Monday.
>
> Let me know your thoughts on all of this.
>
> -Chris
>



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John Grden - Blitz
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