My First Experience With Writing OOP With AS3
So Ive been reading Object Oriented Programming for AS3, and it makes sense. I wanted to try a script, as I should really apply what I have been learning. My script doesnt work, but I wanted to post it on here and see if I could get some feedback. I wanted to build a Mp3 player, very basic - one I could pull into my flash file and instantiate the class with an mp3 that loads in from the .fla. Here is my code, am I off to a good start?
Code:
package {
import.flash.media.*;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
public class SoundPlayer extends Sprite {
public var channel:SoundChannel;
public var mp3File:URLRequest;
private var snd:Sound = new Sound();
playBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, SoundPlayer);
public function LoadSoundClip(mp3File) {
snd.load(new URLRequest(mp3File));
}
public function SoundPlayer() {
channel = sound.play();
}
}
}
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Posted on: 05-08-2008, 06:25 PM
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Hi!
It's been a while since my last post...
I just want to share with you my experience with multiple movieClipLoader.
In one of the project that I'm currently working on, I wanted to make a website that would load external modules, made in Flash (of course).
Concept
The concept is the following :
- When a user load the main site, 8 modules are loaded.
- Each one of them are loaded with the function attachMovie by creating an instance of a movieClip and gives it the name of the module to load (in a parameter).
- Each instances load the right swf according to the name of the module passed in parameter using a movieClipLoader.
Problem
While working on my local computer, it seems that some random modules were unable to load on a free server (50free.com). Sometimes it was 1 module that was unable to load, sometimes it was more... However if I made a refresh, everything was fine.
I first suspected the server being slow to respond due to the poor quality of the bandwidth of a free hosting service, so I changed to a faster server that I buyed.
Almost the same problem...
More modules were loading but still not all of them. The problem happened also at random time...
I checked my website on different computer and speed connection and noticed that on a really high-speed (like a cable modem that could download at 500k/s) the problem was not happening. But since not everyone (even I) have this kind of connection...
The solution
I finally found the problem. It seems that there is a maximum number of connection that your modem/computer/Flash/component can handle at the same time. I fixed the problem by putting my loading sequence in a function that requires an index that indicate precisely which module I want to load. I put the function in a setInterval and voila.
Here is the pseudo code:
ActionScript Code:
var index = 0;function loadModule(value){ if(value == 0){ //load module 0 } if(value == 1){ //load module 1 } if(value == 2){ //load module 2 } _root.index++; if(value > [my maximum number of module]){ clearInterval(loading_sequence); _root.index = 0; }}loading_sequence = setInterval(loadModule, "100", index);
I'm not sure that my AS syntax is perfect since I wrote this example by heart... but you understand the principle.
I hope that this will help a few of you who are hardcore programmers who try to load a bunch of stuff at the same moment as I...
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