On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:20:28 -0500, Joe Berkovitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Basically, it would be really helpful to understand how to minimize > overhead for repeatedly loading a movieclip from an external URL, > because even if the URL's response bytes are cached by the browser, > there's still some significant time that it takes to load the clips. Have you seen the Google Maps demo? http://www.flexauthority.com/Samples/gmap/gmap.mxml http://manish.revise.org/archives/2005/02/12/no-more-xml-from-google-maps/ I'm reusing the same Image objects to display new portions of the map. It's still slow the first time an image is downloaded, but after that it's fast. I simply set the 'source' property of the Image object to the new value. See the code. http://manish.revise.org/flash/flex/gmap.zip _Reuse_, not duplicate, is the key. Manish Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
