hi sönke well, with my bad english that was actually what I was meaning, as I use this trick myself (for all stuff loaded inside the main swf), and was advising Joe Lister to do the same.
this said, it's still annoying that most browsers actually do some kind of caching even if you don't want it at all... ++++++ clemos On 6/8/06, Sönke Rohde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi clement, > > To avoid the caching of the internal loaded SWFs (XMLs probably too) you > have to use the same method as for your main movie. Add the random-string to > every loaded swf, xml. > > Cheers, > Sönke > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of clemos > > Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:14 AM > > To: Open Source Flash Mailing List > > Subject: Re: [osflash] Eclipse ANT build - clear browser cache > > > > hi all > > > > I'm on Windows, and did set cache limit to the lowest value, and > > turned on "reload the page on every visit". > > still it looks like it doesn't actually "turn the cache off": the > > lowest value for cache limit is 1M on IE, and some elements, like html > > inside frames, seem to be cached anyway. > > about flash content, you can use the method bernard described, add a > > random string to the swf url, but as far as I know, the most important > > thing you'll have to do to avoid caching of Flash content is to add > > random strings to each swf you load inside the main swf, because with > > cache "turned off" (ie set to lowest value), the main swf will reload > > every time, but probably not the other swfs loaded inside... > > in my experience, those thoughts apply to Firefox for Windows also. > > > > ++++++ > > clément > > > > On 6/8/06, Bernard Poulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > ...Or, alternatively, build a forget-once-for-all system > > that will make > > > different urls for different version of your swf. That way, > > you (and your > > > clients!!) will not need to "flush their cache" when needed. > > > > > > For example, each time you build your movie with ant, you could also > > > generate a small javascript file which would contain a > > random string (or the > > > current date/time maybe). You then include that file in > > your html and append > > > a dummy parameter with the value in this javascript to the > > .swf url. (of > > > course, this example only works if you are using javascript > > to generate your > > > <Object> or <Embed> tag.) > > > > > > Also, this example only works if the generated .js document > > has a good cache > > > setting associated with it. Additionally, it will work only > > on the "root" > > > swf that your are loading (this will not affect the other > > swf that your > > > MovieClip might be loading afterwards) > > > > > > ----------------- > > > uniqueswfkey.js : > > > > > > //this file was generated, do not modify! > > > var swfkey = '1235267224'; > > > ----------------- > > > <script src='uniqueswfkey.js'></script> > > > > > > '...../myflashanim.swf?swfkey=' + swfkey > > > > > > my 2 cents > > > B. > > > > > > 2006/6/7, John Giotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Why not just turn off caching? > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > osflash mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > osflash mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > osflash mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
