once you make a call to load an asset from a web server, the web browser
won't cancel the download unfortunately. Once you call for it, that's it. Of
course, we found this on Flash7, and I'm not thinking there's anything
different on F8, but maybe someone else knows different.
hth,
On 10/26/05, Benjamin Dobler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> i have the following problem. I want to load a sequence of Images. I have
> my
> own SequenceLoader so that is fine.
>
> Now i need to now the size (totalBytes) of all clips in advance to show a
> progress bar that counts all clips.
>
> So my first guess is to load one clip wait fort he first progress - get
> the
> bytesTotal - and than cancel the loading. With this i would get the
>
> Sizes of all clips without loading them. Now i always thought it`s not
> possible to cancel a loading progress but to my surprise the following
> seems
> to work:
>
>
>
> this.createEmptyMovieClip("image_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth());
>
> var mclListener:Object = new Object();
>
> mclListener.onLoadProgress = function(target:MovieClip,
> bytesLoaded:Number,
> bytesTotal:Number){
>
> var progress:Object = mcLoader.getProgress(image_mc);
>
> trace(" bytesTotal: " + bytesTotal);
>
> size_tx.text=bytesTotal;
>
> image_mcl.unloadClip(target);
>
>
>
> };
>
> var image_mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
>
> image_mcl.addListener(mclListener);
>
> image_mcl.loadClip("img1.jpg", image_mc);
>
>
>
> I believe that the loading is really canceled. I don`t have the image in
> my
> cache after calling this.
>
> Can someone verify that this works? Any better solutions?
>
>
>
> Thanx
>
>
>
> Benjamin
>
>
>
>
>
> RichApps.de
>
> RIA Development
>
>
>
> Benjamin Dobler
>
>
>
> web: | <http://www.richapps.de> http://www.richapps.de
>
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>
>
>
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