Assets.loadLibrary without <library path="path/to/your.swf" /> into project.xml

#1

Hi!

I have many swf files and I want to load some of them by Assets.loadLibrary().

Before of that I load .bundles dynamically but now I don’t know how it works. I could load them including the library path into project.xml but is tedious and I don’t want to have to do it every time I add a new swf file.

Are there any way to load swf without into project.xml?

Thanks!!

#2

This should be possible if you run openfl process first:

openfl process test.swf

This should generate a “test.bundle” directory.

We are currently working on a newer SWF conversion format that outputs to a ZIP file instead.

1. Including a .bundle in your assets directory

If you drop a *.bundle directory in your assets directory, it should be possible to use Assets.loadLibrary with the path to the bundle, like this:

Assets.loadLibrary("assets/test.bundle").onComplete(function(_)
{
    var clip = Assets.getMovieClip("assets/test.bundle:MyMovieClip");
    addChild(clip);
});

2. Including a .bundle separately

You should be able to load a *.bundle from an arbitrary location at runtime using one of two methods

var loader = new Loader();
loader.load(new URLRequest("path/to/test.bundle"));
addChild(loader);

Similar to how Flash instantiates content when using a Loader, this will instantiate the main timeline of the target library once it is loaded. I believe we might also register it with Assets so that you can reference other resources

var clip = Assets.getMovieClip("path/to/test.bundle:MyMovieClip");

The other method is to use openfl.utils.AssetLibrary and to load it that way. Once loaded you can register with openfl.utils.Assets if you like for convenience.

AssetLibrary.loadFromFile("path/to/test.bundle").onComplete(function(library)
{
    var clip = library.getMovieClip("MyMovieClip");
    // or
    Assets.registerLibrary("test", library);
    var clip = Assets.getMovieClip("test:MyMovieClip");
    addChild(clip);
});
#3

Thanks for quick asnwer!

I have a project and I load .bundle perfectly 1 week ago but I try to do this way because I upload openfl and lime to the last version and suddendly when I load .bundles in runtime the console returns this warning “[lime.utils.AssetLibrary] WARNING: Could not find library type: openfl._internal.swf.SWFLiteLibrary” and nothing is drawn :frowning:

I try running openfl process over the SWFs again but the warning persists. Do you know whats is wrong?

Thanks again!!

#4

Is this the development version from GIT or the latest release on Haxelib?

There has been a fair amount of dust lately on GIT but I think it is smoothing out (but you will need to openfl rebuild tools after pulling the latest to build the changes for SWF libraries)

#5

I’ve fixed it… removing the Chrome cache :sweat_smile: The browser was getting old .bundle files!!

Sorry and thanks for all!!

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