Greetings folks, A little background about my project: I have a custom-written flash application which is loading one of a number of external SWF files depending on certain form parameters in the HTML. The application is completely written in ActionScript 2.0 using mtasc (targeting Flash 8). The external files are created using swfmill and consist of a number of image files gathered together into a single movie, with each image on a frame. Each of the auxiliary files can range between 2-4MB, depending on the number of images in the file.
My original approach was to try to do a createEmptyMovieClip() and then manually load the page images incrementally during the app initialization phase, essentially reproducing what the swfmill preprocessing code is doing, however I was not able to get this to work successfully. Right now, the application depends on the fact that there is a single movie clip with each frame being an image, and changing this to use incrementally-loaded images each in their own instance/layer would be too work-intensive. The application works great, I use a MovieClipLoader to download the remote SWF; however intermittently I get an error about the document loading slowly, and Flash Player asks if I would like to terminate the execution. From my research online, it appears that this can be due to the loading of the external file taking more than a predefined timeout (30 seconds IIRC). I feel like I've seen files which will take longer to load and execute, so I believe there must be a way around this issue. A couple questions: 1) is there a way to increase the timeout value in Flash 8/9? 2) lacking that, is there a way to dynamically add/create frames in a movie clip populated with remote images? 3) any suggestions for general loading tuning or other ways to approach this problem? Regards, David -- David Christensen End Point Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
