This is old mail from the last time the loader sucked. I wonder if we should try it.
Basically, instead of using .unloadMovie to abort loading, load a null movie instead. Begin forwarded message: > From: Adam Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 1 September 2005 12:57:18 EDT > To: P T Withington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: From flashcoders: how to abort a loading movie > > This was new in FP6. It definitely might work better for us than what > we're doing. > > A > > On Sep 1, P T Withington wrote: > >> Adam, were you aware of this? Is this a technique we should try >> (rather than >> just letting aborted movies finish loading?) >> >> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 09:26:50 -0600 >> From: Tyler Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Stop loading >> To: Flashcoders mailing list <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> Paul, >> >> I've had to fight this problem too while building a LoadManager >> that can >> make loading/unloading extremely simple in every application. By >> the way, >> excellent work on FlashEarth. >> >> When using the MovieClipLoader the .unloadMovie will only work >> after the >> 'onLoadStart' has been called. If you can wait until that event >> has been >> dispatched then the download should stop. Otherwise it behaves as >> you have >> said, it just keeps loading as usual. >> >> Also, if you tell the MovieClip to load another movie (ex. "null") >> it will >> cancel the current load and begin on the next one. Of course if >> that one >> doesn't exist it fulfills your purpose of simply canceling a load. >> >> Let me know if you have any other questions/problems. >> >> Tyler >> >> On 9/1/05, Paul Neave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi group, >>> >>> I've been trying to find a workaround for a trait in Flash that >>> occurs >>> when trying to download a SWF into another SWF. Once a download has >>> begun, it's impossible to cancel the download and stop it mid-way >>> through. >>> >>> Macromedia's documentation states you can halt a download by >>> using the >>> MovieClipLoader class's .unloadClip() method, but although this may >>> make the listener and movieclip ignore any more responses from the >>> server, the SWF being downloaded continues to be streamed. >>> >>> e.g. See the first comment on LiveDocs: >>> http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/00001584.html >>> >>> I've also searched on Flashcoders' archives and it seems to be a >>> longstanding and overlooked problem. In a browser window to stop any >>> download you simply hit the 'stop' button - there's no native >>> equivalent in Flash. >> On 2006-09-24, at 02:56 EDT, Scott Evans wrote: >> I thought that was supposed to work. What's the warning? > > ERROR: bad url: can't form uri from null > > > >> As an alternative, how about: >> >> v1.setSource("http://blah/1x1.jpg";); > > good idea -- but that doesn't seem to work. Looks like the resource > completes loading. I had some examples in Fiddler that seemed to > halt the > http connection, but now that's not happening. Huh. > > I just realized, an even better idea would be to do setResource > ("small") > to some compiled-in resource. But that doesn't kill the connection > either. Bummer. > > > > gse _______________________________________________ Laszlo-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user
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