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So I decided to do a little experiment. I wanted to create an embeddable player for Knowtes that users could post on their own pages. I could have just used the one I have on the Knowtes site, but it weighs in at a hefty 277k due to its use of the Flex Framework. This is obviously not acceptable if I’m going to have a lot of users embedding this new player on their pages.

So, I set out to create an actionscript only project that would provide all the features of my current framework based player. Here is the result:

I ended up adding more features than the original version (most notably, the theme changes to match the library theme of the user who embeds it), but it still only weighs in at 17k! I think I’ll have to can the original

In creating this I had to convert a few of my personalization classes to work without the framework. So if anyone would like to see how I did one of the following, just post a comment and let me know:

• Bitmap Fade: makes a bitmap copy of a given DisplayObject, replaces the target with the bitmap in the display list and then fades the bitmap, switching it back when it is done. This let me avoid embedding fonts
• Full Gradient Background: allows radial or linear gradients, any number of colors/ratios/alphas, and changeable angle and focalpointratio (pretty much any common gradient option).
• Strech/Zoom/Center/Tile -able Background Image: An actionscript only component that fills up its display area with an image using any of these methods.

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