ActionScript 3.0 :: Workaround Lag While Loading External Content
May 19, 2011
I am working on a flash project (menu and a few pages) which will be run from a localhost and will load images as well as data from a mySQL tables (Wordpress in fact). As a result each piece of content loads relatively fast, however since I have several things to load on a page, the flash freezes for a second. The general idea is to show a nice short animation at that point to mask the loading and then show the fully loaded page, but the loading causes lag to the entire flash movie, including said animation. Presentation is important for this project but I'm a bit new to AS3 and can't find a working solution. Is there a way to make different movieclips to load their content and do their things independently at lower priority than actions outside of them, so that the global animation goes uninterrupted while the movie clip with the page loads its content.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" [code]......
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Update 04 2011-02-11 15:13 : Filed as a bug: https:[url].....
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