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A few months back, I was developing a little Flash widget as a tangent to my main project, and I needed an asynchronous PNG encoder. I found several, but none of them were quite what I wanted. Some were pretty good, but synchronous only. Most of the asynchronous ones did the final compression step all at once at the end, with a call to ByteArray's deflate() method, which meant they weren't really asynchronous -- there'd be a noticeable pause while the compression took place.