technology can be difficult

this week i am digging in to my final project. i will be making a flash player. the audio part of the flash player is working. but the image part is not as easy. flash likes to load images into the swf file itself. whereas i would like the image files to be in a directory on the server, and the swf simply loads the images and displays them when asked (as is the case with the audio part of the project)...

loading images from the server rather than embedding them is desireable so that i can make this flash swf one time and then load many many images at another time, by keeping a list of the images in an XML file (which the flash player can load as needed). This saves development/maintenance time for me and download time for the end user. The end user only has to download the swf and individual images when requested. if they had to wait to download then entire collection of images embedded in the swf...

this should not be too difficult of a problem to solve. but for now its causing some headaches...

first post

today i started a blog. i wonder if this will work.