Re: [Swftools-common] Preloading Images.

[Chris Pugh]

Apologies .. called you Robert instead of Richard.  Comes of having two
two separate mails open at the same time.

C.

2009/2/14 Chris Pugh <address@hidden>:
> If you'll forgive me saying so Robert,  unnecessarily complcated!!  ;o)
> You also need to watch your references.  Hope the snippet below helps
> guide you in the rigth direction..
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> .flash filename="001v3.swf" bbox=300x200 version=10 fps=60 compress
>  .font tahoma "fonts/tahoma.ttf"
>  .box placeholder color=blue height=100 width=100 fill=blue
>  .edittext etext text="--" color=white font=tahoma size=10pt width=40 
> height=22
>
> .sprite images
>  .put placeholder x=0 y=0
>  .action:
>    this.loadMovie("a.jpg");
>  .end
> .end
> .action:
>       this.attachMovie("images","i",1);
>        i._height=10;
>        i._width=10;
>        i._x=0;
>        i._y=0;
>        var v=i.getBytesLoaded();
> //  (or)   var v=i.getBytesTotal();
> //  (or)   var v=i._framesloaded;
>
>        etext.text=v.toString();
> .end
>   .put etext x=120 y=120
>
> .end
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Chris.
>
> 2009/2/12 Richard Anderson <address@hidden>:
>> Greetings, all.
>>
>> I'm writing what is essentially a fancy slide show using SWFC.  On load,
>> the slideshow requests a list of images using loadVariables.  The
>> response to this request ends with "eof=true" so I can tell when it's
>> done loading.I've got a preload screen which waits for this request to
>> finish and then replaces its own onEnterFrame with a function that
>> *should* be waiting for all of the images to preload.  Unfortunately,
>> I've had no luck with getBytesLoaded() and getBytesTotal().
>>
>> I don't need a progress bar, and if there's a better way to go about
>> this, I'm open to it.
>>
>> Here's a code snippet:
>>    .sprite loader
>>        .frame 1
>>            .put loading_animation pin=center x=360 y=203
>>        .frame 13
>>            .change loading_animation rotate=330
>>
>>        .action:
>>            this.onEnterFrame=function()
>>            {
>>                if (_root.eof == "true" && this.ranonce==undefined)
>>                {
>>                    // To make sure this doesn't get run twice if it
>> takes longer than one frame to finish everything.
>>                    this.ranonce=true;
>>
>>                    // Some housekeeping stuff here.
>>
>>                    _root.createEmptyMovieClip("holder", 2);
>>                    _root.holder._visible = false;
>>
>>                   // Sets this.toload to an array of the following form:
>>                   // ["/path/to/image.jpg","/path/to/image.jpg",...]
>>                   this.toload = _root.getImagesToLoad();
>>
>>                    this.onEnterFrame=function()
>>                    {
>>                        next = false;
>>
>>                        if (this.loadindex == undefined)
>>                        {
>>                            this.loadindex = 0;
>>                            next = true;
>>                        }
>>                        else
>>                        {
>>                            loaded = _root.holder.getBytesLoaded();
>>                            total = _root.holder.getBytesTotal();
>>                            if (total > 0 && loaded == total && loaded
>> != undefined && total != undefined)
>>                            {
>>                                this.loadindex++;
>>                                next = true;
>>                            };
>>                        };
>>
>>                        if (next)
>>                        {
>>                            if (this.loadindex > this.toload.length-1)
>>                            {
>>                                // Add controls, the slide movie clip,
>> start the slideshow playing, etc...
>>                                this.stop();
>>                                this._visible = false;
>>                                delete this.onEnterFrame;
>>                                return;
>>                            };
>>
>>                            loadMovie(this.toload[this.loadindex],
>> _root.holder);
>>                        };
>>                    };
>>                };
>>            };
>>        .end
>>    .end
>>
>> Everything I've been able to test works beautifully except for
>> _root.holder.getBytesLoaded() and _root.holder.getBytesTotal().  Both of
>> them always return zero.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help.  I'm a huge fan of this project.  I've
>> been looking for something like this for years, and haven't found it
>> until now.
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
>>
>>
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