• All fallbacks were rendered on a white background. After some fumbling with the bits, the app now reads the background color specified at compile time.
• The drop well would accept any number of files as long as at least one of them was a swf. However, it would also attempt to render fallbacks for non-swf files. The file list is now sanitized so that only swf files are parsed.

Get it here!

Flash supports XML. Consultants and project managers support Excel. Have you ever wished that either Excel or any other spreadsheet application, or any other application for that matter, had a decent exporter for XML data? Not that proprietary-Microsoft-not-terribly-W3C-compliant-type, but real, simple, proper XML? Well I have, and instead of waiting for it I decided to create a small Flash application that certainly helps!

Not many desktop applications export XML at all, but make that CSV (Comma Separated …something) and quite a few do. A typical CSV export from an Excel spreadsheet could look like this:

Now wouldn’t you much rather have that data formatted a little more like this?

Nice and tidy – and best of all; Flash supports it natively!

No more talk. Head here: http://www.oyvindnordhagen.com/flashdev/csvtoxml/