In this 3 Part tutorial we are going to be creating a progressive download flash slideshow. The benefit of progressive download is the slide show will only download one image at a time. Doing so keeps bandwidth down and keeps the slideshow visible.
This is in response a flash slideshow I created last year. It read the XML file and created each slide at the same time. It worked fine locally and with small files, but when placed into production, we noticed it was incredibly slow.
This tutorial will cover a simple XML file, reading XML with ActionScript 3, custom ActionScript 3 events, and a handful of common ActionScript 3 classes and techniques.