> Hi, > > I'm just starting on a project for an installation which will be loading > in a lot of remote images. I'd like for these images to be cached > somewhere on the system. I know that if the project was running in a > browser then the browser's cache would be used but I'm wondering what > happens with a standalone projector (particularly on a Mac which is what > this installation will be running on). > > From my initial tests it seems that the remote image files are cached > somewhere for the time that the projector is running. If I load 200 > images, switch to another page of 200 then when I go back to the initial > page they load more or less instantaneously. However, it seems that only > around 400 images (or presumably some amount of filesize) are kept in > the cache. After you have loaded more than this the older images seem to > need to reload from the server. > > Does anyone know where the Flash Player stores this cache and if it is > possible to somehow tweak it (either in the player itself, the operating > system or by using a third party projector tool). > > Thanks in advance, > > Kelvin :)
That would be a good work for Screenweaver HX :) For instance you can override all the URLs being requested, and store the data on hard-drive to retrieve it later. The nice thing is that you don't need to change your flash client at all ! Nicolas _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
