> Yes, that's a very appealing architecture. We don't have Flash here, > though, just Flex, and while we could track down Flash, install it (the > University has a site license, but there's paperwork to get it), and > learn to use it, I was hoping someone out there might be able to point > me to such SWF's that already exist. I'd hate to reinvent the wheel for > something that's been done so many times already.
I did a bit of googling a while back for the same thing and wasn't able to find any SWF throbbers. There's a website that'll generate animated GIF throbbers (those of choice for the AJAX world), which is very nice... if only Flash supported animated GIFs (which, tangentially, raises the point of why does Flash not support GIF animation? Patent issues?). Of course, you could grab a GIF throbber (great term, I've not heard that before!) and then grab one of the several animated GIF components for Flex (I believe ByteArray has a decent one, but I'm sure there are others). Should be just a slight bump in code size for the GIF animator then you can use any number of web-based throbbers. Troy.
