The Captain is the Zune.net homepage hero that rotates between 3 adds. It uses the same basic approach as all the other RMIs I’ve done for Xbox.com and Zune.net. That would be using my XO class to load and parse the XML, the main class that manages the loading/positioning of all the external files and the user interactions with the app.

The only real difference between the Social RMI and the Captain is that the Social doesn’t use an OOP approach. That’s because one of my co-workers is entering the world of Actionscript so I helped him create it with the tools that he understands. We still used my XO class for the loading and parsing of the XML. After that he wrote functions on a frame to do the work necessary work of managing the positioning and interactions of the external files. He had never before created an RMI type application so this was a good introduction to a Flash app that doesn’t rely the on timeline.