Re: [Flashcoders] Loading library movie clips sequentially?

2006-12-01 Thread Micky Hulse
Jack Doyle wrote: http://www.greensock.com/actionscript/tweenlite/ http://www.greensock.com/actionscript/PreloadAssetManager/ Good luck. Jack, you da' man! This is great, so many helpful people on this list! Many thanks Jack and all... I may be back with more questions... I love learning n

Re: [Flashcoders] Loading library movie clips sequentially? Best way to do this?

2006-11-30 Thread Micky Hulse
Merrill, Jason wrote: I just keep my own static Animation class handy, which simplifies the tween and transition classes: .. Instead of a static class like above, you could also write one that extends movie clip and adds animation methods. Then associate your movie clip with that class. WHO

RE: [Flashcoders] Loading library movie clips sequentially?

2006-11-30 Thread Jack Doyle
CTED]> Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Loading library movie clips sequentially? Bestway todo this? To: Flashcoders mailing list Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have found a major issue with the Fuse kit - it's huge and has huge overhead. It's a great set of

Re: [Flashcoders] Loading library movie clips sequentially? Best way to do this?

2006-11-30 Thread Ian Thomas
On 11/30/06, Claus Wahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: However, zipping thumbnails has the big advantage that you save a lot of overhead. 200 successive GET requests are no fun. Loading a zip is way faster as you only need to do one request to the server. And with FZip you have access to files wh

RE: [Flashcoders] Loading library movie clips sequentially? Best way to do this?

2006-11-30 Thread Merrill, Jason
I just keep my own static Animation class handy, which simplifies the tween and transition classes: import mx.transitions.*; import mx.transitions.easing.*; class com.boa.effects.Animate{ public static function fadeIn(clip:MovieClip, time:Number):Object{ return ne

Re: [Flashcoders] Loading library movie clips sequentially? Best way to do this?

2006-11-30 Thread Rasmus
I see your point. Loading the thumbnails in a zip is definetly better than loading them individually.. In my case the thumbnails have to be loaded before the user is able to interact with the site anyway. Still, some kind of advanced background loading is what I'm looking for, but that's

Re: [Flashcoders] Loading library movie clips sequentially? Best way to do this?

2006-11-30 Thread Claus Wahlers
Rasmus wrote: Ok.. But what if you have around 100-200 files, let's say external JPG's. Wouldn't the zip file become huge? The reason I'm asking is, I'm making a photographers portfolio where the idea is to load thumbnails first - then start loading the high-res pictures in the background. w

Re: [Flashcoders] Loading library movie clips sequentially? Best way to do this?

2006-11-30 Thread Rasmus
Ok.. But what if you have around 100-200 files, let's say external JPG's. Wouldn't the zip file become huge? The reason I'm asking is, I'm making a photographers portfolio where the idea is to load thumbnails first - then start loading the high- res pictures in the background. when I need a

Re: [Flashcoders] Loading library movie clips sequentially? Best way to do this?

2006-11-29 Thread Claus Wahlers
I've found that LoadQueueManager is excellent for loading multiple external files in sequence.. It also gives you the possibility to pause loading, rearrange loading order etc. etc. http://blog.bittube.com/2006/10/27/loadqueuemanager-update/ Hope to see an AS 3 version of this soon! For AS

Re: [Flashcoders] Loading library movie clips sequentially? Best way todo this?

2006-11-29 Thread Micky Hulse
Hi Jason, thanks for input, I really appreciate your time and insight. Merrill, Jason wrote: ... ... onMotionFinished event and such things went back to normal. I only respond because you were asking for the "best way to do this". - this was just my experience. For sure. "The best way" is

RE: [Flashcoders] Loading library movie clips sequentially? Best way todo this?

2006-11-29 Thread Merrill, Jason
Organizational Effectiveness >>-Original Message- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Stone >>Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 9:14 AM >>To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' >>Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Loading

Re: [Flashcoders] Loading library movie clips sequentially? Best way to do this?

2006-11-29 Thread Micky Hulse
Hi, Great info all! Many thanks Andy, Alain, and Rasmus. I really appreciate your time. So, it sounds like the consensus is to externally load the clips... Hehe, that makes a lot more sense. :) @Andy: Thanks for example code. That actually looks like what I would like to do... A few month back

Re: [Flashcoders] Loading library movie clips sequentially? Best way to do this?

2006-11-29 Thread Rasmus Snabb
I've found that LoadQueueManager is excellent for loading multiple external files in sequence.. It also gives you the possibility to pause loading, rearrange loading order etc. etc. http://blog.bittube.com/2006/10/27/loadqueuemanager-update/ Hope to see an AS 3 version of this soon! Rasmus

RE: [Flashcoders] Loading library movie clips sequentially? Best way to do this?

2006-11-29 Thread Alain Rousseau
Hi Micky, if you want to spread the load across time, the best approach is to have 36 .swf files that you load one at a time. To perform the loading you should use the MovieClipLoader (look it up on HYPERLINK "http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.h tm?href=

RE: [Flashcoders] Loading library movie clips sequentially? Best way todo this?

2006-11-29 Thread Andy Stone
I use fusekit(http://www.mosessupposes.com), it's great for animation sequences. -Andy Stone Here's an example of how I might do it... import com.mosesSupposes.fuse.*; ZigoEngine.register(PennerEasing, Shortcuts, FuseFMP, FuseItem); // var numOfClips = 3; var currentClip = 1; //the clips/images