Hello fellowcoders, I've been experiencing some problems with an application I've made with AS3. It consists of an image gallery which loads images dynamically from an XML file.
Maybe you'd want to skip my explanations and go directly to the problem in the bottom of this message. Since it's my first experience with AS3 - apart from doing some basic AS3 tutorials and other not so simple but still very simple stuff with AS2 a couple of years ago - it is absolutely not written in the simplest and more effective manner. For example, I've changed the code lots of times. For example, redefining the way the images were loaded. At the beginning they were loaded by clicking on the thumbnails. So if I clicked on the thumb of an image that were already loaded, it would load it again. Now it works like that: There are 3 arrays of images (for the thumbnails, big thumbnails and full images). So these three "sequences of images" start loading at the same time, and "placing" the images as elements in the arrays in order to be more easily handled (to my point of view). Naturally the thumbnails finish loading first. If I click on a thumbnail whose corresponding image is not yet loaded, It starts loading it. And then when the function that keeps running to load all the full images gets to it, it skips it. There are lots of other things I could have done better for example, placing many of the elements inside of a movieclip, for example a bar which would contain all the elements of the thumbnail mechanismus ( containers, masks, buttons). I've tried that but it was maybe too late, for it was difficult cause I had many references to those elements with in the code. There's no document class, and 80% of the code is written in one frame. Actually I don't know how I could write this whole thing using different class files, for example, cause it would have many cross-references, etc. But I would like to know how to do it! So the main problems are the following: 1. Sometimes (randomly) the array ot thumbnails stop loading. It gets stuck in a certain thumbnail, showing the preloader movieclip forever. 2. Another problem is that the browser's window simply closes itself by clicking on an item in the menu, that happend in Safari and Firefox. 3. Another problems occur with the menu (the icon moves up and not the square behind it, or the whole thing gets stuck. Any help will be appreciated ! You can check it out on this link: http://iialves.com/hive/ I've probably put this version one week ago, so I've been unpdating it since then. But it remais something very close to that. Now I should go cause I'm late to work. Thanks a lot! Isaac _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
