Hi Henrik! Thank you so much for the help, I really appreciate it. :) See my replies inline below.
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Henrik Andersson <[email protected]> wrote: > Long story short, the TLF library is implemented in actionscript. Said > library is hosted on adobe's servers. > In order to use the library, the player must have loaded it. The default > solution to this used by Flash is to wrap the main movie in a separate > preloader movie. > This system is called RSL, or runtime shared libraries. Ah, that's interesting. Is it just me, or does RSL seem like overkill for simple, timeline-based, movies? Questions: 1. Should I use TLF for all new text boxes, or is it best to use classic text for everything, and only use TLF for when I need the TLF features? 2. Does TLF text add much additional Kb to a document? > The preloader will load the embedded swf file (it uses the DefineBinaryData > swf tag for that) and the swz file. This is done because otherwise you would > get some nasty verify errors when the movie tries to refer to a class that > isn't defined at that point. > The effect is that your "main movie" is no longer the main movie, removing > luxuries like being able to use the stage before the constructor finishes. Sh*t. That isn't good. The app I built needs to have the ability to control the timeline of the loaded swfs! :( > It also complicates the code for loading such a movie into another movie. > You have to get thru the preloader movie in order to access the main movie. Ugh. That just does not sound like good news. I keep wondering why Adobe made this the default for text boxes... It almost sounds like an advanced feature that should only be used when you know what your doing! :D Maybe I am just grumpy because RSL/TLF text caused me several hours of headache yesterday. :D > Luckily, this mess is solved for you by Adobe, use the SafeLoader class that > they have written. It will pretend to be a normal Loader that loads a normal > movie, letting you ignore the RSL preloader stuff. Ah, well that's good news! I am actually in the process of refactoring the loading part of my code, and I was planning on using GreenSocks's LoaderMax lib... I am hoping that it can handle the RSL preloader stuff. Thanks so much Henrik! I really appreciate your pro help! Have a great weekend. Cheers, Micky _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
