AssetManager is a simple, yet flexible, solution to asset management for AS3 projects. It provides a clean, simple and well documented API to allow you to focus on building your projects quickly without having to worry about how to load, store and retrieve assets. AssetManager contains a simple plugin architecture for file formated to keep the footprint low.

Some features:

• Clean and simple API
• Global and local loading queues
• Nestable queues
• Simple purging system for managing garbage collection and keeping memory usage in check
• Priority system for controlling loading priority of individual assets and nested queues
• Ability to store any valid ActionScript object, so all assets, internal or external, can be managed through AssetManager
• Support for XML formatted asset lists
• Plugin architecture for handling different data and file formats. Included format handlers are:
  • Binary
  • Images (PNG, GIF and JPEG)
  • Sound (MP3)
  • SWF
  • Video (All Flash Platform supported video formats)
  • XML
  • Name/value pairs
  • Adobe Pixel Blender Shaders
• Easily extendable with custom plugins to support any format
• Suitable for use in both small projects and large enterprise level projects

Sample

AssetManager.getInstance().add("image.png", {
    onComplete: function():void
    {
        trace("Asset complete:", AssetManager.getInstance().get("image.png"));
    }
});