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In this chapter

Communicating Locally 284

Loading Text Data 286

XML Data 288

Loading External Images and Movies 294

Security Features Added Since Flash Player 7 297

Detection of the Flash Player 298

Troubleshooting 298

Best PracticesWhich Method to Use When Loading Data 299

A Flash application can communicate with its local environment and pass data back and forth to a remote server. You might be wondering, "Application? Isn't Flash usually a movie?" Flash is probably best known for its animation capabilities as well as interactive media, but Flash is also well suited for working with external data and interactive data visualization. In this chapter you will learn some of the basics of working with external data in Flash, including XML formatted data, so that you can build your own Flash applications.

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