Thanks chaps,
In the end, loadBytes did the trick.
Cheers,
h.
2009/4/3 Cédric Tabin <tabin.ced...@gmail.com>
> Hello,
>
> Usually for that kind of problem, I simple load my SWF as binary data and
> use Loader.loadBytes to retrieve many instances of the content. Maybe
> tha'ts
> a solution for you ?
>
> Regards,
> Cedric
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Ian Thomas <i...@eirias.net> wrote:
>
> > Henry,
> > As far as I'm aware, duplication of existing instances of objects
> > is still something sadly lacking in Flash. There are a number of
> > hacks, but none of them seem to work for all cases (I've tried a
> > bunch!).
> >
> > In your case, I have two suggestions; both are a change of approach:
> >
> > i) Use the loaded SWF simply as a container for a symbol definition
> > (in the loaded SWF's library) and create lots of new instances of that
> > symbol - that is perfectly normal and works fine.
> >
> > or
> >
> > ii) Actually load multiple instances of the SWF. This isn't anything
> > like as heavyweight/slow as you might expect (and was the way to do it
> > in AS2) as the SWF will be in the browser's cache.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Ian
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Henry Cooke
> > <aninfinitenumberofmonk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > hej folks,
> > > I'm writing an assetloader class, with the intention of attaching a
> whole
> > > bunch of instances to the stage of a loaded asset. Because I want to
> > attach
> > > more than one instance of the loaded SWF, I'm having to duplicate the
> > asset
> > > instead of just using addChild, because you can only addChild one
> > instance
> > > of an object to the stage at a time.
> > >
> > > So, I've written the following function in a class which extends
> Loader:
> > >
> > > public function get asset():DisplayObject{
> > >
> > > var cn:String = getQualifiedClassName( contentLoaderInfo.content );
> > >
> > > var c:Class = Class( contentLoaderInfo.applicationDomain.getDefinition(
> > cn )
> > > );
> > >
> > > return( DisplayObject( new c() ) );
> > >
> > > //return( contentLoaderInfo.content );
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > > However, when I try to use the duplicated asset, I can't control its
> > > timeline, and any sound on that timeline is heard whether it's attached
> > to
> > > the stage or not. Basically, I suspect that duplicating the asset is
> > > mangling its timeline somehow. Uncommenting the commented return and
> > > commenting everything else out gives me a movieclip that behaves how I
> > > expect, but of course can only be attached to the stage once.
> > >
> > > Has anyone tried stuff like this before (duplicating a loaded SWF with
> > > timeline intact)?
> > >
> > > h.
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