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In ActionScript, you can do something like this:

[Embed(source = "src/myfile.xml", mimeType = "application/octet-stream")]
private var xml : Class;

and it will embed your file to be used in code. How can i do something similar in Haxe?

Gama11
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Things have changed since the time the question was asked. With a modern version of haxe one can do:

@:bitmap("test.png") class TestBMD extends BitmapData {}
var bm = new Bitmap(new TestBMD(100,100));
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    Why for God sake should I enter width and height of the image? This is terrible practice! If I have a hundred of images I would waste tons of time finding their sizes and entering them as magical numbers. I hope Haxe's developers will overthink this and make something similar to flash's [embed] tag, which was not perfect but at least not such a headache. – momijigari Aug 25 '14 at 07:08
  • If you specify 0, 0 for the width and height it should be fine. When I tried it with anything other than 0 it seemed to ignore the values specified anyway. – Rich Dec 23 '14 at 20:04
  • And actually it's exactly the way it behaves in flash under the hood. swf container integrates with avm bytecode in this predefined way. – stroncium Dec 24 '14 at 06:44
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Haxe allows you to provide external resources info for embedding in hxml.

You may refer to the doc.

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If specifying width/height annoys you, and if you don't mind not using the @:bitmap metatag, you could do:

import openfl.Assets;
...
var bm = new Bitmap(Assets.getBitmapData("test.png"));
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XML is easy to use haxe to get. Add -resource myfile.xml@myxml. Then, in your code, to get the xml string, use haxe.Resource.getString("myxml"). You can then parse this string to xml.

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  • So the `@myxml` portion is what identifies the file with an alias when used in the actual Haxe code (with Resource.getString) ? – chamberlainpi Nov 12 '14 at 16:36