Hi all,
I just came across a little weirdness, and was wondering if anyone can give me a reason for it (found a workaround).
I have a Flash sprite. That base swf loads other swfs into a clip. I'm getting a little flash (no pun intended) when swapping the swfs. There seems to be a delay between the movieclip loader class's report of the swf being fully loaded and the actuality of the swf being fully loaded - the first swf disappears, nothing is on stage for a split second, then the new swf appears.
So, to kill the flash, I figured I'd grab the stage image, drop it in a sprite higher than the Flash sprite, and then call the Flash sprite, telling it to start the load process. Then, the loader class in Flash sends a message to Director to remove the "mask" once the load is complete.
That second call wasn't getting issued. I turned visibility off for the mask sprite to see what was happening underneath, and viola - call gets sent. So, it seems that if you fully cover a Flash sprite, it hibernates. However, using any ink except copy on the mask's sprite does not cause this.
I don't get it.
(Flash sprite is not DTS, obvously).
Bug, or am I missing some aspect of copy ink and Flash?
I have sample movies if anyone's interested.
-Kurt
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