Bill Sanders, talented Flash developer and good friend of the Flash team, has written an impressive article for the Adobe Developer Center. In his article, Bill explains how to use design patterns to build an ActionScript 3.0-based Flash video player. This will be useful for those of you experimenting with the Flash Professional 9 ActionScript 3.0 Preview available now on Adobe Labs.

This article begins with a simple two-state application that plays and stops playing an FLV file. It requires only Flash Player 9 and ActionScript 3.0, which you can download from the links below. The initial application introduces the basics of a state machine and the state design pattern.

The application is then expanded into a more robust one using the same state structure and incorporating Flash Media Server 2. This illustrates both the expandibility of an application using a design pattern and the process of incorporating Flash Media Server 2 into that design using ActionScript 3.0.

Read the full article here.

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