ActionScript 2.0 :: Ridiculous Load Time For A Huge String?
Mar 30, 2010
i need to upload a ridiculously huge text file into Flash MX 2004 and turn it into an array. The loading part is not a problem: the issue is splitting the array.
The original string is approximately 531,000 characters long and needs to be turned into a multi-dimensional array of 3500 elements split into another 20 elements (array[3500][20]). Unfortunately when I try to make the initial split into 3500 elements (which I would later need to split again into 20 using a for loop) the Flash takes a ridiculous amount of time to load.Most of the time Flash just crashes: I tried splitting the string into just 50 elements and it took me around 7 seconds. My computer usually has no problems with basic tasks like these.
So, what should I do? Is there a way to change memory allocation to Flash? Should I split the string? Should I create multiple text files, load them into separate loadVars objects and split those? Or am I just trying to do something too big for Flash?
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