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Because of that comment were i was asked if the papercube will be run without Flex but also with XML-files, so i looked what is the difference between Flex Datahandling and pure AS3-Datahandling with XML. There is no big difference. Of course the Main-Classes (Document-Classes) can’t extend the UIComponent-Class and must extend the MovieClip-Class to be visible on Stage. The main difference is to handle the XML-Data. The refactored class looks like this.

package net.borishorn.pv3d.data
{
	import flash.events.*;
	import flash.display.*;
	import flash.net.*;
	import flash.utils.*;

	import net.borishorn.pv3d.events.PaperEvent;

	public class PaperData extends Sprite
	{

		public var sides:XMLList;

		public function PaperData()
		{
			getData();
		}

			private function getData():void
			{
				var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
				loader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.TEXT;
				loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, resultHandler);
				loader.load(new URLRequest("xml/papercube.xml"));
			}

			private function resultHandler(event:Event):void
			{
				try
				{
					sides = new XMLList(event.target.data);
					sides = sides.children();
					dispatchEvent( new Event(PaperEvent.XML_DATA_LOADED, true, false));

				}catch (e:TypeError)
				{
					trace("There was something wrong");
					trace(e.message);

				}

			}

	}
}

The whole package will be found here

The Flex-Version is here