ActionScript 3.0 :: Update Text Inside FOR Loop?
Dec 14, 2011
I'm trying to display the current loading/buffering percentage by displaying it in a label.
Somehow, when the for-loop starts, the text wont update. It seems that the app is too busy rendering my frames so that it wont update the text..
This is parts of my code:
ActionScript Code:
for (var i:int = 0; i<=359; i++){
myMovieClip.gotoAndStop(i);
mySWFBuffer = new BitmapData(myMovieClip.width, myMovieClip.height, false,
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