sorry to bombard with so many questions today, but I've decided to try
and advance my QCPlugIn skills :P
In my QCPlugin, I'm loading a plist which has a ton of info, and from
that I'm constructing and outputting an NSDictionary, which has 4
arrays of image urls. basically something like:
root (NSDictionary)
|___ imagesState1 (NSArray of NSStrings)
|____ url1
|____ url2
...
|____ url9
|___ imagesState2 (NSArray of NSStrings)
|____ url1
|____ url2
...
|____ url9
|___ imagesState3 ((NSArray of NSStrings)
|____ url1
|____ url2
...
|____ url9
|___ imagesState4 ((NSArray of NSStrings)
|____ url1
|____ url2
...
|____ url9
etc.
then in my QTZ, I separate the 4 arrays with the 'Structure Key
Member' patch and send each one to a JavaScript Image pre-cacher to
later use in an iterator (as described here http://himiko.dnsalias.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/QuartzComposer#Reading_Images_from_a_directory
) so I have 4 arrays of images (representing states), with a bunch
of images in each.
then in an iterator i iterate through a bunch of objects, depending on
the state of the object I choose one of the 4 image arrays, and then
an image from that array for that particular object (hope this all
makes sense).
My question is, if I look in the QC debugger, it seems all the images
are constantly being downloaded. What is the easiest way to prevent
this? I setup a flag in the QTZ to only send the XML through for the
first frame, but that did not work (images aren't loaded). So used an
accumulator and multiplexer and only send the XML through for the
first second. This works, but I think its very dodgy. Is there a best
practice for situations like these?
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