Comments on: AS3 Preloading continued http://www.nulldesign.de/2007/11/30/as3-preloading-continued/ A place to showcase my personal portfolio and flash related experiments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:01:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ponce http://www.nulldesign.de/2007/11/30/as3-preloading-continued/comment-page-1/#comment-4497 Ponce Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:21:03 +0000 http://www.nulldesign.de/2007/11/30/as3-preloading-continued/#comment-4497 Very Nice ! Very Nice !

]]> By: TheActionscriptMan http://www.nulldesign.de/2007/11/30/as3-preloading-continued/comment-page-1/#comment-2003 TheActionscriptMan Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:07:50 +0000 http://www.nulldesign.de/2007/11/30/as3-preloading-continued/#comment-2003 I think your right that the -frame compiler option is a simple way of doing things. I've written a preloader using this method that combines this with MochiAds, MochiBot, Glossy Progress Bar and Simple domain locking - and i've put the source code up on my blog http://www.adventuresinactionscript.com/ if anyone wants it and i've linked you as the source where i found the info - so cheers for finding and the explanation! I think your right that the -frame compiler option is a simple way of doing things. I’ve written a preloader using this method that combines this with MochiAds, MochiBot, Glossy Progress Bar and Simple domain locking – and i’ve put the source code up on my blog http://www.adventuresinactionscript.com/ if anyone wants it and i’ve linked you as the source where i found the info – so cheers for finding and the explanation!

]]> By: Writing a preloader in ActionScript 3 | Jetpack Development http://www.nulldesign.de/2007/11/30/as3-preloading-continued/comment-page-1/#comment-725 Writing a preloader in ActionScript 3 | Jetpack Development Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:49:38 +0000 http://www.nulldesign.de/2007/11/30/as3-preloading-continued/#comment-725 [...] for discovering this (unfortunately the text is German, but the source code is readable). Also thanks to Lars Gerckens for his research, and BIT-101 for this alternate solution. And of course thanks to Adobe for [...] [...] for discovering this (unfortunately the text is German, but the source code is readable). Also thanks to Lars Gerckens for his research, and BIT-101 for this alternate solution. And of course thanks to Adobe for [...]

]]> By: ragaskar http://www.nulldesign.de/2007/11/30/as3-preloading-continued/comment-page-1/#comment-677 ragaskar Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:00:56 +0000 http://www.nulldesign.de/2007/11/30/as3-preloading-continued/#comment-677 Problem solved: Apache was gzipping my flash file, which (I'm assuming) forced the browser to download the entire file before it was able to display it. Weirdly enough i was unable to find any gzip config beyond the simple loading of the delate module -- everything was gzipping regardless. Anyhow, was able to turn off deflate/gzip from htaccess using someone else's gzip config (be warned this probably also ADDS gzip on some items in addition to turning it off for swfs): SetOutputFilter DEFLATE # Netscape 4.x has some problems... BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html # Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip # MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html # NOTE: Due to a bug in mod_setenvif up to Apache 2.0.48 # the above regex won't work. You can use the following # workaround to get the desired effect: BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html # Don't compress images SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \/image\.php no-gzip dont-vary # Also don't compress PDF and Flash-files 17-01-2004 MM SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.pdf$ no-gzip dont-vary SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.swf$ no-gzip dont-vary # Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary Problem solved: Apache was gzipping my flash file, which (I’m assuming) forced the browser to download the entire file before it was able to display it.

Weirdly enough i was unable to find any gzip config beyond the simple loading of the delate module — everything was gzipping regardless. Anyhow, was able to turn off deflate/gzip from htaccess using someone else’s gzip config (be warned this probably also ADDS gzip on some items in addition to turning it off for swfs):

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
# Netscape 4.x has some problems…
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
# Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
# MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
# NOTE: Due to a bug in mod_setenvif up to Apache 2.0.48
# the above regex won’t work. You can use the following
# workaround to get the desired effect:
BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
# Don’t compress images
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \/image\.php no-gzip dont-vary
# Also don’t compress PDF and Flash-files 17-01-2004 MM
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.pdf$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.swf$ no-gzip dont-vary
# Make sure proxies don’t deliver the wrong content
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary

]]> By: ragaskar http://www.nulldesign.de/2007/11/30/as3-preloading-continued/comment-page-1/#comment-673 ragaskar Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:07:07 +0000 http://www.nulldesign.de/2007/11/30/as3-preloading-continued/#comment-673 holy smoly. I uploaded it to another server (which happened to be running lighttp/debian), and it worked great on both IE (which STILL isn't 'testing' properly locally) and FF. so obviously there is something going on with my other server (Apache/CentOS). wonder if it's a mime type deal or because of APC or something. this is going to drive me nuts. although hey, I guess I didn't REALLY need to have gotten any coding done for the last 5 hours. holy smoly. I uploaded it to another server (which happened to be running lighttp/debian), and it worked great on both IE (which STILL isn’t ‘testing’ properly locally) and FF.

so obviously there is something going on with my other server (Apache/CentOS). wonder if it’s a mime type deal or because of APC or something.

this is going to drive me nuts.

although hey, I guess I didn’t REALLY need to have gotten any coding done for the last 5 hours.

]]> By: ragaskar http://www.nulldesign.de/2007/11/30/as3-preloading-continued/comment-page-1/#comment-672 ragaskar Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:27:08 +0000 http://www.nulldesign.de/2007/11/30/as3-preloading-continued/#comment-672 this seems to work fantastically when compiled from Flex Builder and viewed with FF, but not at all when I serve it from our web server (and view with FF or IE) or view it with IE7 (web or locally). You don't have any live examples up so I can see if it's something with my code or a common problem? Trying to eliminate some of the mystery variables. this seems to work fantastically when compiled from Flex Builder and viewed with FF, but not at all when I serve it from our web server (and view with FF or IE) or view it with IE7 (web or locally).

You don’t have any live examples up so I can see if it’s something with my code or a common problem? Trying to eliminate some of the mystery variables.

]]> By: lars http://www.nulldesign.de/2007/11/30/as3-preloading-continued/comment-page-1/#comment-145 lars Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:33:23 +0000 http://www.nulldesign.de/2007/11/30/as3-preloading-continued/#comment-145 I'm using the Flex 3 SDK, but the frame option does exist in Flex 2 as well. I’m using the Flex 3 SDK, but the frame option does exist in Flex 2 as well.

]]> By: guntur http://www.nulldesign.de/2007/11/30/as3-preloading-continued/comment-page-1/#comment-144 guntur Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:12:49 +0000 http://www.nulldesign.de/2007/11/30/as3-preloading-continued/#comment-144 Hi, what flex version are you using with the -frame option? I have flex2SDK and it won't work. The [Frame(factoryClass="")] embed works great though. Thanks Hi, what flex version are you using with the -frame option? I have flex2SDK and it won’t work. The [Frame(factoryClass="")] embed works great though. Thanks

]]> By: sectore http://www.nulldesign.de/2007/11/30/as3-preloading-continued/comment-page-1/#comment-80 sectore Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:30:22 +0000 http://www.nulldesign.de/2007/11/30/as3-preloading-continued/#comment-80 Nice discussion and thanks to Sven for sharing his solution. Anyway, I prefer Keith's way and hide all Flex classes located within the "mx" packages folder using an individual config file named "Application-config.xml" and add this as a compiler option -load-config={pathToYourProject}/Application-config.xml or using Adobes Flex Ant tasks <load-config filename="${basedir}/Application-config.xml" /> To avoid to include the Flex classes mentioned above I declare within the "Application-config.xml" only the "playerglobal.swc" as a element of the library path: <library-path> <path-element>{pathToFlex2SDK}/frameworks/libs/playerglobal.swc</path-element> </library-path> Anyway, that's not the only way of doing and Sven's solution is pretty straight forward , too ;-) -sectore -- <a href="http://www.websector.de/blog/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.websector.de/blog/</a> Nice discussion and thanks to Sven for sharing his solution.

Anyway, I prefer Keith’s way and hide all Flex classes located within
the “mx” packages folder using an individual config file named
“Application-config.xml” and add this as a compiler option

-load-config={pathToYourProject}/Application-config.xml

or using Adobes Flex Ant tasks
<load-config filename=”${basedir}/Application-config.xml” />

To avoid to include the Flex classes mentioned above I declare within
the “Application-config.xml” only the “playerglobal.swc” as a element of
the library path:

<library-path>
<path-element>{pathToFlex2SDK}/frameworks/libs/playerglobal.swc</path-element>
</library-path>

Anyway, that’s not the only way of doing and Sven’s solution is pretty
straight forward , too ;-)

-sectore
–
http://www.websector.de/blog/

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