Actionscript 2

One of the biggest challenges of developing crossplatform applications using Flash and MDM Zinc is properly loading external assets. Typical assets include images, data (css, xml, txt etc...) and video (flv typically). The main outline of our task is as follows:

1. Determine what type of path
   we need to properly load each type of asset on each operating system. This
   is the most time consuming part.
2. Develop a method of
   determining which operating system we are on (without having to change any
   code).
3. Put together a package of
   classes that detects operating system and returns the proper path. At this
   point it is also helpful to plan on future platforms, such as the AIR
   runtime environment or running on a web server.

So without further ado, let's get on with it...