Flash & XML Question

nikimere

Hi,

I'm currently building a system that displays anywhere from 100 - 800 images in one massive scrolling movieclip in flash.
It works fine up until about 50 images then the loading time becomes way too long.
I have an XML file with all the images... lets say 500 for the moment.
Anyone know a way to load say 20 at a time?

forbairt

You're trying to load 500 images at once ????

Are these tiny images or 100kbimages ? or more ... cus you're looking at loading 50mbs+ if they are which in my mind is crazy unless this is a distributed app

If it was up to me I'd create a small script that would return the xml for 1 - 20 images ... 21 - 40 .. and so on based on a simple value entered into it

Then you load them only as they are needed ...

nikimere

No they are small images, about 8kb each... so that would be less than 5MB.
I would really like to do all this within flash and not have to create custom XML files.
Is there a way to take sections the XML childNode load them, then after the 20 have been displayed load the next 20... and so on?

forbairt

are the images embedded into the xml document or are you loading each one individually ?

You have to load the full XML document I believe in order to parse it with actionscript (thats to the best of my knowledge its been a while since I've played)

If the images are embedded into the xml doc then you're going to have to load the whole thing.

Apart from that I don't see the problem ... just iterate through the xmldoc loading the images as you go ?

nikimere

forbairt wrote: »

are the images embedded into the xml document or are you loading each one individually ?

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Apart from that I don't see the problem ... just iterate through the xmldoc loading the images as you go ?

The images are loaded individually, all that is in the XML doc is a link to the jpg.
Suppose i'll just have to do some loops in loops in loops....
Thought there might have been some nice fancy way i didn't know about Thanks anyway

forbairt

Maybe take a look through the code here

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=177593

I really think you should pass the xml file through something else ...though as loading 500 - 800 lines is quite an overhead ... once you start to add in descriptions or similar the file is gonna get quite large