Reduce Load Times / Design Architecture?
May 12, 2009I'm designing a flash site with a Dynamic Gallery (loading images from a XML file). what can I do to reduce load time at the beginning, or limit loading times to individual images?
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After an introductory animation, I want a mouse-over to trigger a function that populates the map-image with a series of buttons. I need the buttons to be distributed according to information in an XML file (ie. x/y coords, some information text, and an animation to load upon being clicked). I want each button to call a mouse-over function that loads info data from an XML field and place it in a dynamic text field at the top. Then, I want each button, when clicked, to call a function that animates replacing the map-image with an image of the corresponding travel destination. Finally, I want a button on each image that will clear that image from the stage and call the function that populates the map so the process can start again.
I'm working out of a couple of books on AS3, but I'm a little hazy on how I ought to be constructing this thing. So here's the first place I've run aground: After the intro animation, I want the user to mouse-over the stage and have a second animation play (clearing away the introductory text), and I want the conclusion of the clearing animation to immediately call the map-populate function; but I don't want a mouse-over to have any effect until the introductory animation is finished. Is there an event dispatched automatically at the end of an animation? What is the event listener class?
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Mar 22, 2011Having a problem with a game, The cpu load at the start when all the elements are on the stage is between 120 - 150%. Far too high. I reduced the frame rate from 30 to 24 and now the cpu load is around 100 - 125% which is still too high for my liking !! I'm wondering if this code can be optimized, I'm sure this is the cause, it's running within a movieclip class on 15 movies at the start..
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Jul 18, 2010I'm programming an xml image gallery for a photographer in As3.All thumbs load in from XML-driven external source and then if you click a thumb it loads (the same way) an image.Being that she is a photographer I'm assuming she will want large good quality images in the gallery. If there are large image files say 2mb or so, apart from changeing the image res/size is there a way to reduce the load time when those image are called or should I add a warning that the files are large and people will have to wait?
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Aug 11, 2006I'm in the process of including a 1 minute .flv into a flash doc. I don't want to stream the video since i want the video to load almost instantly and do not have any room for streaming progress bars also i can't use flash8 and to get video to stream in flash 6 is a pain.
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Dec 22, 2005The flash e reading from a XML file and all the works (portfolio company) are divided in 4 parts (multimedia, design, 3d animation and pos-production). In the beginning of the site I have all that 4 options (4 buttons), but no matter is my choice this is always loading in first place de multimedia content. Why? E.g. If I click the button design, goes to the layout position of design but the content is the multimedia one. Each area as a different layout position. Here goes the ActionScript code that I'm using to populate the content:
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var boxes:Array = new Array();
//Defines space between movieClips thumbnails
var gridx:Number = 32;
var gridy:Number = 32;
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function resetBoxes():Void {
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function imageLoaded2(e:Event):void
{
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Level2) Each of these views is the same: a list, but each is populated with different data. Selecting an item brings the user to another set of views SubView1 - 20. that each are again populated with a list.
Level3) However, any selection made on a List in a SubView leads to a view that is always the same for all selection paths - but is populated with different data. Basically a button, another list, a text input and a textarea.
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A view that's holding all components (rotation area, drag area, resize buttons)A model (or something like that) that holds the necessary logic (setSize, setPositiom, rotateAroundCenter, etc..).And a controller that add listeners to the view components, update the mouse cursor when its over a component, get the mouse coordinates when is interacted with a component, do the calculations and call methods from the model that will update the view and the object that is benign transformed.
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All the other CS4 Master Collection apps have installed and run fine.
My volume is formated as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).