Manish, Thanks for your inputs.
--- In [email protected], Manish Jethani <manish.jeth...@...> wrote: > > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:50 PM, bharat_00001 <bharat_00...@...> wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion. I have a bit of confusion. What do you mean by > > "load the next one when while one is playing". ActionScript isn't > > multiothreaded. How can it load the next and play the current at the same > > time. Or did I not follow whatyou said correctly? > > You can call load() on one instance (or many instances) while the > first one is playing. > > ActionScript is a programming language, and it has no native support > for threads (it has no native support for events either). > > The Flash Player is the runtime. It has support for events, obviously, > through the events API. > > The player is able to perform a number of asynchronous tasks in the > background while the application continues to function normally. > Typically for such tasks you'll get "progress" and "complete" events. > You don't have to do any multi-threading for such tasks yourself: just > start the task (by calling the load() method on VideoDisplay for > instance) and wait for the events. > > Internally the player may be using multiple threads or just a single > thread for these background tasks. It doesn't matter either way. If it > uses a single thread, it'll just loop through these tasks in what can > be called the "event loop" and perform them little by little on each > iteration, at the same time processing user events as well. So you > continue to get your mouse and keyboard events while the data is still > downloading. > > Manish >
