Props go out to Claus Wahlers and Max Herkender for thier efforts. They have released to the general public thier FZip class which allows you do download and unzip files in AS3.
Now even though browser support for Gzipped requests is pretty high these days it makes a nice idea to package file in a zip for releases.
See Claus's website for some sample usage code.
Hands up if youd like that?
Im not sure if people have heard about this but I thought it was an amazing statistic. New Zealands home grow version of Ebay called Trademe has this!
"68% of New Zealand's Internet traffic is to online auction site TradeMe"
Pretty impressive really. Check out Read/Write webs write up on it. Just as a bit of background info Ebay came out in NZ but they kept the site in US dollars……I mean really cummon.
Well another Kiwi has started making waves in the internet world, and Im allways keen to toot the patriotic horn. There has been a bit of a mess over on Youtube about a girl posting video logs under the name Lonelygirl15. She is now the most subsribed user on YouTube. A lot of people thought her posts were the preceeding marketing for some sort of Tv series and what thier true purpose was is still to be revealed.
What has been discovered is that lonelygirl15 is actually Jessica Rose from Mount Maunganui, here in New Zealand. That the place where I went to sur, and hang out looking at hot chicks at the beach! and one of them ended up going to hollywood and causing a still on the Inet.
For more info check MASHABLE STORY
What really scares me is that just everyone can be investigated online. The Youtube video shows about 12 images of this girl from various sources including googlesimage cache. Damn I wonder what dodgy stuff people could find out about me.
Man, marketing companies would do anything for this sort of exposure, Well done Jessica, Bet youll get an acting job now. Not really sure about your American accent though.
Any Kiwis out there….the story will be run on tv1 and tv3 news soon so keep an eye out.
Yep, not too sure if it helps anyone but I managed to pass around an omf object through the external interface.
Following on from Onflex.orgs post I encoded an AMF Array of objects then passed it through the external interface using the readUTF method. Now im not sure if the data is any smaller than an xml representation of the same object, but hey it can be done.
I created an Array of objects, read them into a ByteArray, then readutf off into the externalinterface. Picked the data up in .NEt (Came through as a hex string) and passed it back to flash. Flash then successfully decoded it out to a flash Array of objects.
Now all I need is a .Net AMF serialiser. MidnightCoders (WebObjects) Im looking your way 
). Then I can pass objects round all day long. Maybe even use Zlib compression on it. Who knows. Thought it might be cool for a flex project I have started at work where we are creating a flex UI for a .Net application.
Doubt it will help anyone but nice to know it can be done.
