[osflash] AS2 MovieClipLoader timeout

[andrei at rgbdesigndigital.com.br]

if your problem is the warning of "script running too slowly",
flasm can help you:

http://www.nowrap.de/flasm.html
http://www.nowrap.de/flasm.html#scriptlimits


good
luck,
andrei


> 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
> david at endpoint.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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