ActionScript 3.0 :: Loader Class As Lame?
Sep 14, 2009
my application needs to load an swf into something that looks and acts like a video player. so you can scrub through the parts that are loaded and see the progress of the load. im not using any pre-fab video components, but to make it work i need to know which frames are loaded and i need to be able to skip to them.
1) to know how many frames are loaded (not bytes!) and
2) to be able to skip to a loaded frame before the movie finishes loading.
it seems to me that using the Loader class you can do neither. sure, you can check progress with bytesloaded (not useful to me) but you cant do ANYTHING to the swf, programmatically, until it is fully loaded! am i wrong about this?
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if you look at the comments in the code above you see my problem. if i cant see which frames are loaded or skip to them before the movie is finished loading, the user has to wait until the movie is done loading before they can start no navigate and i can't show them a meaningful loading progress bar like they have on video players (bytes doesnt tell me how much "time" is loaded)
am i the only one who thinks its crazy that in flash, which is all about showing content quickly while it loads, you cant do anything with the swf until its complete? am i missing something or is this a real limitation?
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