Help on Flash CS3 AS2

[JcX]

I encountered a weird problem when I doing my AS2 programming in Flash.

When I publish the .swf movie, and play it, it returns

A script in this movie is causing Flash Player to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort the script?

 

And after I search and test, I found out the main problem would be this loop which caused the problem.

function readXML()

{

photoNumArray = [];

firstchild = photoxml.firstChild;

thumbpath = firstchild.attributes.thumbpath;

fullpath = firstchild.attributes.fullpath;

for (secondchild = firstchild.firstChild; secondchild != null || secondchild != undefined; secondchild.nextSibling)

{

photoArray = new Array();

photoArray[1] = secondchild.attributes.thumbname;

photoArray[2] = secondchild.attributes.fullname;

photoArray[3] = secondchild.attributes.desc;

photoNumArray.push(photoArray);

delete photoArray;

}

}

 

photoxml = new XML();

photoxml.ignoreWhite = true;

photoxml.load("photos.xml");

photoxml.onLoad = readXML;

 

The FOR LOOP is causing this lagness. And the XML contents is as follows.

<gallery thumbpath="images/thumbnail/" fullpath="images/fullsize/">

<image thumbname="t01.jpg" fullname="f01.jpg" desc="First picture"></image>

<image thumbname="t02.jpg" fullname="f02.jpg" desc="Second picture"></image>

<image thumbname="t03.jpg" fullname="f03.jpg" desc="Third picture"></image>

<image thumbname="t04.jpg" fullname="f04.jpg" desc="Fourth picture"></image>

<image thumbname="t05.jpg" fullname="f05.jpg" desc="Fifth picture"></image>

<image thumbname="t06.jpg" fullname="f06.jpg" desc="Sixth picture"></image>

</gallery>

 

The weird thing is, I used the exactly same FOR LOOP in my another .swf movie, it returns no error.

But in this case, just the XML sheet is 2 lines longer than the working one, and the FOR LOOP creates 1 more array for each loop.

And it returns such error.

 

Anyone can help me? Thanks.

 

Earnest,

JcX

[JcX]

EDIT

Problems solved, by just simply rewrite the whole scripts and modify a little bit which I don't think will affect the loop

 

New problems:

I use another loop to help me create a few movieclips on the stage, and loads the picture URL from XML.

function loadPhoto()

{

for (p=0; p<=5; p++)

{

thumblist_mc = _root.photolist_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("thumb"+p, p);

thumblist_mc._y = 100 * p;

thumblist_mc.loadMovie(thumbpath + photoNumArray[p][1]);

 

thumb0.onRelease = function()

{

preview_mc.loadMovie(fullpath + photoNumArray[p-1][2]);

}

}

}

 

The problem is this part

thumb0.onRelease = function()

{

preview_mc.loadMovie(fullpath + photoNumArray[p-1][2]);

}

 

Can't I use onRelease function for movieclips I created by createEmptyMovieClip() function?

And if I use FOR LOOP to create movieclips, how can I set different loadMovie("URL") for each movieclips I've created?

Please help.... Million thanks to all.

[karthiflash]

hello jcx. iam karthi, from india.. I am also a flash developer working for e-learning projects in france.

 

nice to meet you..

[JcX]

Hi very nice to meet you.

I'm just an undergraduate engineer who obsessed with multimedia design, especially Flash.

I couldn't find any tutor who willing to teach me for FREE, so I learn it all by myself. ^^

Maybe we can exchange our experience sometimes though.

 

Again... It's my honour to meet you Karthi.

[karthiflash]

are u from india..?

 

I thing the flash technology is not arised all over world and its not implemented like java ar .net which has more support in training..

[JcX]

Nope, I from Malaysia, just few steps below you. :-p

 

Hmmmm.. Flash aren't so welcome just because of it size and loading speed.

but after AS 3.0, I believe the speed had immensely increased and that should be a problem though.

Although VB.Net, Java are very well accepted, but still I insisted to use Flash as my main web presentation.

[karthiflash]

Well said JCX...Though any scripts are in challenging with flash they cant achive the presentation and portablity as Flash

[JcX]

Flash has its own incomparable uniqueness - attracting animation + interesting interaction with browsers.

The reason I like Flash is because it can makes me outstand from the crowd.

All my friends like my site because I'm based on Flash while they're based on blog.