Would removing the (Variable definitions / Spaces / Have everything on one line) make the project run faster.Testing my projects most beefy loop without variable definitions seems to make it run slightly faster.
View 4 Repliesfor (var i = 0 ; i < 10000000; i++) ;stop();I've placed this code in frame 1 of a flash app. As you can see it does nothing but count to 10,000,000. This takes about 20 seconds to execute.
In C#.NET, this one line runs over 400 times faster. It can count to one billion in less time. Why? I could see it being faster in C#, but what could possibly be going on under the hood that could make it 400 times slower in AS, given that the one line should reduce to just a few machine instructions?
(If you're wondering, I've been tasked with porting some C# code to ActionScript. The code has some scientific calculations in it. But in AS they run so slow that it is unusable. This is the most basic example of the problem.)
I want to remove spaces from the end of a string.
apple = "A P P L E ";
to
apple = "A P P L E";
i need to create an arbitrary number of display objects using a for loop because the number of objects will depend on the number of items in an xml file.
so i want to control the objects using actionscript. in as 2 i could create a temp variable in the for loop and use attachMovie() and assign an instance name. i know in as 3 you can use the .name property, but i heard you had to use the variable handler to control the object.
so i can't do this because it generates an error:
var numOfItems:uint = 5;
for(var i:uint = 0; i < numOfItems; i++)
{
var mc[i]:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
}
Most of my experience with XML has been with image galleries where I have mostly stored information into attributes, but now I'm making a simple news display with XML. For practice. And the problem is here and I can't seem to solve it.
You see, this is my code.
Code:
myXML = new XML();
myXML.ignoreWhite = true;
myXML.onLoad = function() {
[Code]....
It doesn't actually display (empty line), but there are two empty lines that are selectable before and after the text. This boggles me, since I set ignoreWhite to true. I'd like it to display just Man, I rock, without any empty lines before or after that text. Sure, I could edit my <update> node so that the node and it's chlid text node are in the same line, but I want my XML to be easily readable.
And it's strange that everytime I use a line break (with return of course, in notepad) in a text node, Flash displays that as two line breaks. So does anyone know what's with those two lines before and after the text and why does it make two line breaks where there is one in my XML file?
I'm using the text effect I found in ActionScript Text Animation , and the script works great.
My question is, is it possible to have line breaks? I tried adding spaces to end a line, but you'd have to wait for the script to read through the added spaces before the next line begins.
Most of my experience with XML has been with image galleries where I have mostly stored information into attributes, but now I'm making a simple news display with XML. For practice.
Code:
myXML = new XML();
myXML.ignoreWhite = true;
myXML.onLoad = function() {
[code]....
It doesn't actually display (empty line), but there are two empty lines that are selectable before and after the text. This boggles me, since I set ignoreWhite to true. I'd like it to display just Man, I rock, without any empty lines before or after that text. Sure, I could edit my <update> node so that the node and it's chlid text node are in the same line, but I want my XML to be easily readable.And it's strange that everytime I use a line break (with return of course, in notepad) in a text node, Flash displays that as two line breaks.
I have shortened this example to keep it simple, otherwise I wouldnt be doint this
I need to pass different variables to function inForLoop each time.
Code:
function someFunction():void {
for (var i:int = 0; i < columns; i++) {
for (var j:int = 0; j < rows; j++) {
[Code]....
I'm slowly converting my older Director-made tutorials to Flash. The user inputs text, and then I evaluate it. Before this evaluation, I want to remove spaces to avoid the user's input being counted incorrect because of an extra space. How do I do this for Flash CS5?
Here's what I did for Director.
[Code].....
My question is, does a better, faster CPU necessarily equal faster SWF compile times? Or does it rely on something else (OS, memory, etc). I only use AS3 and some of my projects take a while to compile. If certain hardware can guarantee me a faster compile time, it'd be worth including those things in my shopping list.
View 2 RepliesI can make a normal preloader, with a bar and percent shown and so on... But I want to make a little thing in the middle of the preloader that rotates faster and faster when the percent loaded goes up. This is what I thought would work:
[Code].....
On a button click I would like to accelerate at a specific moment the movie (from 24 frames per second to 60) and then slow it down again to 24 frames per second.
View 2 RepliesI've created a flash interface with action script and the whole shebang for the web. It takes hours to load and I've seen sites with even more pictures and information load faster. I've compressed all my pictures and implemented various UI loaders to spread the load time out but it still takes a while. Does anybody have any tips and tricks to make my flash load faster?
View 1 RepliesCompared to native apps, my Flex application runs like a hog born by a snail, especially on mobile devices. What tricks can I employ to optimize it's performance
View 3 RepliesI am doing this interactive display for school and I have 2 .swf games and 5 .swf movies or animations. My animations are loading ok and so are my games. However, when clicking the buttons to navigate through the whole interactive journey, the games will not go off of the screen. I have tried searching for codes, making up codes, and unloading the games, but nothing works! Also, I have to have the fps set at 12 for the games but I also have an interactive quiz, and with the fps at 12 you have to click the next button like 5 times to get it to slow down! Is there a way to make the time for one .swf faster then the others?
View 2 RepliesI made a Flex 4 web application. Upon testing locally, I already got satisfied at how it looks like. However, the swf's file size grew to around 6mb in size so when I uploaded it to my website and viewed it, it takes forever to load on a computer with quite slow internet connection. So my question is, how do I make it load faster? Should I:
separate it into chunks? If so how do I do it.
not put the embedded images inside the SWF but instead, store it outside in a folder? If so, how do I make it load on the background while the user is interacting with the primarily loaded parts of the web app?
i've made a website and its a very large file. 14.3 MB to be exact and I it takes forever to load. Does anyone know how I can make this load faster??
View 6 Repliesthis was my first application iam using flash ,whatever i created is working faster in my local machine while iam upload that in website its becoming very slow in loading that .
View 12 Replieslike say i have a gif that has 10 frames. what is the code that will help me make the gif go through those frames at a quicker pace?
View 3 Replieshow to make my thumnails scroll faster as you drag further to one side or the other?I'm a designer trying to grasp AS so please excuse my messy script!
var isOver = 0;
function onEnter(event){
if(isOver == 1)
scrollers.nextFrame();
[code]....
I have a button that every time we press it it moves one unity down (button._y++) However how to make move it faster or moves more than an unity at a time?
View 2 Replies[code]in my original code..function "test" will change the x axis of the images by Timer..I wanna the x axis of the images can be changed after every two seconds..but when I run it..it's obvies faster and faster every time when the Timer dispatch the TimeEvent the delay always shorter than the last time.
View 7 RepliesI am using Flex 4 and AS3 and I am trying to make it so that the user can draw a freehand line with the cursor - I have this part done.However, I also need the line to be a dashed line instead of one solid line like it is now. below is my code I am using. I have found some examples on how to do this, but they are all for straight lines, not for a freehand line.
Class File (DrawingArea):
package
{
import flash.display.BitmapData;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
[code]....
When working on small projects or some test classes , I would prefer to quickly compile my code from the command line as opposed to creating a full Actionscript project in Flash Builder for instance.
In a previous similar question , an answer was given referring to this article:[URL]..but this is for Windows user...
I had a look at ProjectSprouts, which seems excellent but too heavy for the sort of task I'm looking for.
Would you know of any alternative approach that could be used to quickly compile a swf from the Terminal on Mac OSX?
I downloaded Flex SDK 4 and also an .as project with many classes. In order to learn I want to build them and execute. How do I do it ?
I tried with FlashDevelop, but it's not working and when works compile only one single class.
I am working on a simple textfield(or so i initially thought simple.) that consists of a scroll bar, some dynamically loaded text with a small amount of css styling the hyperlink. There are no initial errors the text loads, the style is applied successfully,scroll bar works BUT the text is no longer organised as all the breaks between the paragraph are gone and the text is squashed together in one block.
I've put my code below.the css is labeled code as there is no cSS tag on this forum
ActionScript Code:
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import fl.controls.UIScrollBar;
import flash.events.Event;
[Code].....
Has anyone tried to compile a flex project that uses Cairngorm with command line?
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to pass the contents of variable playnoyes to the long line of code below to decide whether or not to autoplay the flash movie, but doing it as I have below, the resultant line of code has the variable in quotes and therefore the code doesn't execute it as expected. My question is, how can I pass the variable so that the resulting line of code doesn't have the quotes around the variable value.
var playnoyes='true';
var testtext = "<script type='text/javascript'>AC_FL_RunContent ('codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.[code]....
I have double checked flash, design and code and I can't seem to correct the small thin white line appreaing to the right of my movie.
View 5 RepliesI have a bunch of thumbnails i'm getting from XML that have this code on them...
Code:
for (e = 0; e < total; e++) {
_root.web_thumbs.thumb_button.duplicateMovieClip("button" + e, e + 12);
_root.web_thumbs["button" + e].c = e;[code].....]);
It loads the XML variable fullimg into an empty movie clip on its own layer in the timeline.The movieclip, "container", is assigned this code, but the code isn't on the movieclip, it's on a frame designated for just actionscript.This is the code
Code:
container.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._x = int(content._x - (content._width / 2) + 30);
this._y = int(content._y - (content._height / 2) + 30);
}
The Problem Is...When there is no image loaded into the movie clip, it works fine, and shifts around depending on the location of the other movie clip, "content". But, once there is an image loaded into "container", it stops shifting around depending on the location of "content", and just sits in its last location.The only thing i can IMAGINE being problematic is, on another frame, where I have the XML being cut up and assigned to variables, at the end I have a remove _root.onEnterFrame, removing the onEnterFrame at the beginning of the XML to variables line of code, so that is stops running.