SomaLoader is a lightweight loading manager written in AS3. You can load many types such as images, swf, xml, text, xml, css, fonts in a swf, mp3, variables and binary data. Items can be added, removed and changed in position from the queue even while loading.

SomaLoader provides a simple and unique interface for massive loading, to listen to events and access to data.

SomaLoader has some specific features such as targeting before loading, easy loading progress display, caching system and binary loading for “silent loading”.

I’m working on the version 2 of Soma (AS3 MVC Flash Framework) and SomaLoader will be part of the framework, this is a pre-release as it can be used as a standalone.

More information on the SomaLoader page.

I’ve made a minor update that brings us to Soma 1.6.4 and SomaUI 1.0.6, you can get the new versions from the SomaUI page.

In the XML Site Definition, the attribute urlfriendly in a page node builds the URL for the deep-linking and in previous version this attribute had to be unique through the XML. It is no longer the case, you can now have identical parts in the URL.

This wasn’t possible before:

/#/page1/common-urlfriendly/

/#/page2/common-urlfriendly/

/#/page3/common-urlfriendly/

Only the PageManager changed, you can update your sources from the previous version without problem.

And by the way, from now, I’ll be release only minor update for Soma and SomaUI as I’m working on the v2 for both of them.

I made a small update in the SomaText class (also Soma and SomaUI) because of a bad behavior with the TextField class. The TextField instance is losing the HTML formatting in case you set the htmlText and then set the multiline property to true (the other way keeps the formatting).

To reproduce the behavior:

1. create a next TextField instance
2. set some htmlText with formatting (like P and BR)
3. set the multiline property to true

Not a big deal but SomaText solves this behavior (working either way). I’ve also updated Soma and SomaUI as the framework can process TextField properties in the XML you might have found formatting problems with some SomaUI Templates (or when using the TemplateParser). The Soma Protest sources are using styles from a CSS, not TextField property in the XML, so no problem).

Anyway, everything should work as expected now.

Another tutorial but for the Flash Develop users this time. I explain how to create a Flash Develop project and compile the site after exporting a project from SomaUI.

The tutorial is available in the SomaUI page or here.

Thanks to Keita for this one

A new tutorial is available for Soma (Flash AS3 MVC Framework), I explain how to create a FDT project in eclipse and compile the site after exporting a project from SomaUI.

It also shows you how I use a SWC file as a Flash Library for a pure actionscript project.

Hope it is useful for all the FDT user (thanks Powerflasher!).

The tutorial is available in the SomaUI page or here.