ActionScript 3.0 :: Unloading A Preloader Not Ex1.swf
Nov 5, 2009
I have a "portfolio" which loads some projects I've been playing with.Some of these are reasonably large, so I use a preloader to load them.So, for example, in portfolio.swf, press button1, use a loader class to load ex1preloader.swf which loads ex1.swf.Press button2, I unloadAndStop the loader, then load ex2preloader.swf which loads ex2.swf,and so on. So far so good, all works fine.The problem I'm having is if I click button2 before button1 preloader has finished loading, the unload seems to unload the preloader, but not the ex1.swf (I can tell as the sounds keep going - some of which only get triggered when the code executes).This is *only* a problem if I interrupt at the preload stage - if it succesfully loads ex1.swf, everything is ok, even if I then interrupt ex1.swf.It seems like the preloader gets unloaded, but not what *it* is loading.
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