Thanks, Nate and Alex, Your suggestions and information were very helpful. I think that simply eliminating redundant Embed() calls will save be close to 0.5MB. The third frame approach will be extremely helpful for end-user experience of load time. Ultimately, I could render most of the images as vector graphics - but I don't think that I'll have time to do that in the near term. Thanks again, -Eric
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Basically, the entire SWF must be downloaded to show up. Flex SWFs default > to 2 frame SWFs. The first frame should show the preloader, the second shows the app, and all embeds are in the second frame by default. > > Also see last paragraph of this post and its example. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui/2008/09/using_the_flex_builder_3x_prof.html > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nate Beck > Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 4:45 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Load time, multiple redundant Embed() calls, etc. > > > Anytime you Embed anything, you're including it within your swf. It may get compressed a little bit, but you're still embedding it. That means your SWF file will contain all of the images that you used [Embed(source="foo.png")] on. > > Using Embed is not like HTML where you have your images in a directory and > then your swf calls them at runtime. > > Also, use vector graphics as much as you possibly can. > > Cheers, > Nate > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Eric Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have inherited some code and it seems to build into a fairly large .swf and > takes a very long > time to download. Running locally, things go fairly quickly - but not so > remotely. Part of this > may be due to slow server and net connection - but I am not able to change > those any time > soon. > > So, I wonder two things: > > 1. Are there tools for highlighting cause of slowness of download (e.g., > areas of bloat in > code)? > > 2. If the code is rife with [Embed(source="foo.png")] - where same 'foo' is > being embedded in > multiple files - would cause bloat? And would it be better to have one > managing singleton > that embedded all images? > > Thanks! > -Eric >
