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One of the most exciting new features of the new Flash Player is the native 3D support. I put together a couple of demos to compare FP10’s 3D performance versus the ‘old-school’ approach, using the Away3D library (I didn’t have time to build a PaperVision example, but I imagine the performance would be similar to [...]

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In AS3 you can load an asset from a SWF using the Embed metatag like this:
PLAIN TEXT
Actionscript:

[Embed(source="Assets.swf", symbol="MySymbol")]   

var mcClass:Class;

var myMC:MovieClip = new mcClass();

addChild(myMC);

Where 'Assets.swf' is a swf that contains a symbol with linkage class name 'MySymbol'. Sometimes when you do this you will get the following error:
TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion [...]

If you uncheck "Generate HTML wrapper file" in your Flex Builder Project ActionScript Compiler options (which is good idea if you want to use SWFObject to wrap your SWF rather than the crud that Flex Builder generates), Flex Builder uses the system default application for opening SWFs when you run/debug your project.
If you get the [...]

With the Open Screen Project, Adobe is betting everything on making Flash the world's number one universal runtime.
They are opening up the SWF specification which will allow anyone to build their own Flash player. They are also removing licensing fees for using Flash on devices. This means loss of revenue in the short term [...]