Flash :: Pls Help - Stop Swf While Pre-loading

Stop Loading?
hello fellas,

I'm using a very basic script for a pre loading:

ActionScript Code:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) { bytes_loaded = Math.round(_root.getBytesLoaded()); bytes_total = Math.round(_root.getBytesTotal()); getPercent = bytes_loaded/bytes_total; this._width = getPercent*187; _root.loadtext = Math.round(getPercent*100)+"% please wait..."; if (bytes_loaded == bytes_total && bytes_loaded > 0) { _root.gotoAndStop(3); }}

But i added a "skip" button... When i press it, the root goes to frame 3 where a stop is and nothing else. But it keeps on loading... So how do you tell flash: "Stop loading you ****"

Stop Re-loading
Hi All,

I have a MC which loads on mouse over. The problem is each time i mouse over it, it loads again. how can i stop a movie clip re-load after it has loaded completely.

Thanks

How To Stop Loading A Swf?
Hi guys. I'm producing a site with six sections. Each section has a different large bitmap background. The effect the client wants is for each background to mask over the previous background once loaded.

I'm doing this by having two holder mc's which swapdepths() after loading. Everything works fine, except when, for example, you're in section 1, and you click section 2, and then click section 3 straight after. Section 2 still loads in, and then section 3 a few moments later. I'm trying to find a way of halting this load once another section has been pressed.

Tearing my hair out on this one!

MCs Won't Stop Loading
Ok, this may be a little challenging for me to explain. In my portfolio section, I have a few links under an empty movie clip. These links are client names. When clicked, they are supposed to load an external swf into the empty movie clip. The problem is that if I click on one, then rapidly change my mind and click on another, the originally clicked external swf never stops loading and then my links stop responding. I appreciate any help. Thank you! Aubrey

Stop Re-loading
Hi All,

I have a MC which loads on mouse over. The problem is each time i mouse over it, it loads again. how can i stop a movie clip re-load after it has loaded completely.

Thanks

How To Stop Loading The Movie?
I want to load my movie by parts, with a preloaders between them... so I want each preloader load movie from current position.

New Windows Keep Loading, Can't Stop Help
ok, so my site opens and after a few seconds more browser windows open up in the background, and they keep loading- about 2 or 3 a second. Then when you finally close them all and navigate away to another site and come back, it doesn't do it. PLUS, it only does this on some computers, pc and mac, i can't figure it out. I hope its a really simple fix! please help!
thanks,
-doug

Loaderror So Stop Loading
hello there!

(as version 2.0)

I am wondering about methods for monitering the number of files in a directory. I basically want to load a series of images in a directory into flash, but i want flash to stop looking for images when i get a load error(as the number of images to load is unspecified).

all the files are named numerically and they are in different directories based on their catagory, say a directory of wolf images where each image is numbered 1-whatever.

a very simplified pseudo-code methodology for this is as follows:
(just for the purpose of demonstrating how it works)

for loop for establishing which directory to look in

for loop for establishing filename(ie name_1,name_2,name_3 etc)

if error count < 2{
add movie clip
load image into new movie clip
}
on loaderror {
++errorcount
}
on load init{
error count = 0
}

the only issue i seem to be having is a feedback issue, where even though the loaderror variable increments on an error, the app is stilll looking for more images to load. However if i rack up the error count amount on entering the frame then the if works(which it should) and it doesnt look for more images

due to the above it seems the reason must be because flash is loading in all the images until the for loop stops, THEN checking whether or not they have loaded.

obviously unless it stops loading when an image(or 2 in a row, etc) fail to load, its gonna look for images indefinetly and therefore crash.

i have looked long and hard for some tutorials on this, but none quite address the problem, so i was wondering has anyone ever tried this before? is this a common problem?

cheers for any ideas!

Stop Loading Streaming Mp3
is there any way to stop loading a streaming mp3? i am trying to create my own media player and am running into some problems. thanks.

Stop Flv Playback From Loading
Hello,
my home page contains a scroll panel whose thumbnails open different swfs on the main page. These swfs sometimes contain flvplayers. Within the swfs, i can navigate to a different frame that has no flv player and close the streaming by using the following code:
myFLVPlayback.getVideoPlayer(0).close()

However, from the home page, when i click from thumbnail to thumbnail, the swfs load but the flvplayers seems to continue streaming in the background, eventually, after many clicks the loading is very slow and i can hear the overlayed sound. I need to tell flash to close the stream on thumbnail click, but since the stream is from an external swf, how can i address it within this page?
thanks

How To Stop Loading Files
Hi

I have a problem that i have a mc in root . In the first frame , i duplicate it into 96 instance and they will load a picture sparately. I have a btn in the first frame as well. When the btn is pressed, all the duplicated instance will be removed. However, i find that all unloaded pics still in loading stage. The flash seems stop until all pictures are loaded. Anyone know how to stop loading when i click the btn.

Thanks in advance
zeroLam

Can You Stop Loading A Streamed MP3?
I'm building an streaming mp3 player for a friend. He wants it to have 3 sample songs that you can choose to play.

I have got the flash working with all the streaming and playing whenever you click on the buttons. However I am hoping to make the movie start loading all three to start with. Then, when you click one to play it it will stop loading the others to allow all the bandwidth to focus on the track being played. Then when this is finished loading, or they choose a different track, the loading will start again on the other songs (or the song that they clicked).

Is this even possible? And if so how do you do it? I have looked around and can't find anything to help ...

Any help would be much appreciated.

Loading From Xml And Stop On Next Fixture
fixed

Stop A Loading Sound
Hi everybody,
I'm loading an external sound (mp3)

Code:
s = new Sound(this);

s.onLoad = function() {
this.start();
};

s.loadSound("theSong.mp3", true);
I'd like to be able to quit the loading. Any idea?

Code:
delete s
is not working

thx,
*M

Stop Flash From Loading
I've got a flash video(http://www1.kanal5.se/brothersandsisters/brothersandsisters.swf ) that is hardcoded to start playing when the page is loaded. But the page has several different videos and I don't want any to load unless the user chooses to start it.

I've tried using flowplayer but it doesn't accept that file. Also the .swf linked above has the controls embedded in the swf file. Would it be possible to extract and FLV file from that swf or some other way to get rid of the embedded controls?http://www1.kanal5.se/brothersandsisters/brothersandsisters.swf

Edited: 03/06/2007 at 10:05:24 PM by ioor

Stop Flvplayback From Loading
Hello,
my home page contains a scroll panel whose thumbnails open different swfs on the main page. These swfs sometimes contain flvplayers. Within the swfs, i can navigate to a different frame that has no flv player and close the streaming by using the following code:
myFLVPlayback.getVideoPlayer(0).close()

However, from the home page, when i click from thumbnail to thumbnail, the swfs load but the flvplayers seems to continue streaming in the background, eventually, after many clicks the loading is very slow and i can hear the overlayed sound. I need to tell flash to close the stream on thumbnail click, but since the stream is from an external swf, how can i address it within this page?
thanks

Loading External,but It Cannot Stop.
hi, there! i guess this is mayb a very easy problems?
but i just dunno how to solve it ~.~"""""
wish anybody who knows could tell me what should i do in my main so that my external swf could stop.thanks a lot!! ^^

the problem is :
at main.swf,i click on one of the external file,first time, i click,
it doest play,this is good,but after i hit play and then i click on other external swf, it plays by itself, even though i had put the 'stop'...

*attached is a test file ^^

Help With Loading Mcs And Stop Commands
I have a virtual tour of a school onto which I want to load an mc wherein will lie various photos with stop frames in between each frame. How do I do this.

The fla is at http://www.disfasia.net/virtualtour.fla

Also, how do I make the scrolling left and right stop when I near a button?

Thanks,

disfasia

Stop Loading File(s)
developed an mp3 player with database for a site. works great. Except, when the user chooses another track, it starts to preoload/stream, and then play. But it doesn't stop loading the previouse track(s) which slows down everything, sometimes leaving a backlog 20MB big of things that don't need to be downloaded anymore.! How can i stop it from doing this? i've noticed this before but with images, but MP3 can be a lot bigger and cause more drag.

http://www.dec0de.net/timeline/index2.html

has anyone else noticed this? how can i stop it loaded files once another one is selected?

CODE: in level0
myMusicVolume=100;
s = new Sound();
s.setVolume(myMusicVolume);

CODE: in level70
var s = new Sound();
bytesTotal = _level0.s.getBytesTotal();
var bytesTotal = _level0.s.getBytesTotal();
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
bytesLoaded = _level0.s.getBytesLoaded();
percent = Math.round((_level0.s.getBytesLoaded()/_level0.s.getBytesTotal())*100);
if (percent == 20) {
_level0.s.start();
}
};

///this below does nothing?!?!?!

function stop_load() {
_level0.s.unloadMovie();
s.unloadMovie();
_level0.s.stop();
removeMovieClip(_level0.s);
_level0.s.loadSound("none", true);

}

///actually starts to play the track;

_root.active.gotoAndStop(1);
_root.active = this;
stopAllSounds();
_level0.s.loadSound(file_path add file_name, true);
stop();

many thanks in advance.
dan

Swf Starts Loading After I Pressed Stop
Hi!

Strange thing happens.

I'm doing a audioplayer where i'm loading a swf with sound using
loadMovieNum("audio1.swf", 1);

When i press the stop button
on (press) {
stopAllSounds();
}

the sound stops, but after a while i starts again, anyone nows whats wrong.

Thanks!

Stop Re-loading An Already Loaded Movie
Is there a script that can cancel out re-loading a loaded .swf? i have 4 buttons which load 4 different .swfs, so when you click on button one, movie one loads, but if the user clicks on button one again the movie re-loads again...

how can i stop this so that it recognizes that that movie is already open?

thanks,
jondj24

How Do I Stop This Mp3 In The Library From Loading Up Front?
hi -

so i have an mp3 in my library which is about 2.5MB. it seems that the flash player tries to load this up front, before the first frame of the preloader even plays, even though it isn't used until much later on in the movie.

as a result, the user is faced with a blank screen for a long time before even the preloader appears. it's late and i'm not understanding this although i am guessing that for some one the solution to this must be obvious?

as far as i know, the mp3 has to be in the library rather than loaded later - it has to be streamed audio within the movie because there is a bunch of animation that syncs to the music... (this has to be saved out to flash 5 :-/)

i'd really appreciate any help -

thanks!!!

Stop External FLV From Loading / Streaming
I am using the video component player and it is working fine using this code:
Code:
video.setMedia("elements/flv/episode_1.flv", "FLV");
The problem is, if someone is playing the video and goes to another part of the flash movie, the video keeps playing or loading in the background. The video image doesn't show, but i can hear the audio or see in the browser that it is still loading.

How can i kill the video from loading once the playhead moves from the frame that the video player is on (it is sitting on a single frame)? Thanks in advance!

How Do I Stop An External Movie From Loading . . .
I have my main flash movie. The site then loads one of many external movies (.swf files) into level 10 depending on what the user selects. The problem i am having is . . . if the movie they select is loading (fairly large and has a preloader) and they get impatient and click for another movie to load before it has completed, eveything starts to flash and neither movie loads.

Is there a way to cancel a loading movie?

Thanks!

URGENT::stop Loops From Loading Over Themselves::
deadline!! please help! i must get this done and nothing i have tried has worked.

i have numerous loops that play in the background of my flash document. i used sound objects with linkage to the mp3s and they are controlled by buttons. the first loop starts playing on it's own from actionscript in the root timeline at a particular frame. when i click on a button to change the music, the loop that is playing stops and the new loop loads. this all works seamlessly. BUT... if i click on the button that controls the already playing loop, it will load another loop and i hear two instances of the same song playing over each other. sounds like crap obviously.

is there a way to get flash to do nothing if the button's associated song is playing?

thanks mucho!!
kurt

Can't Stop Player From Loading From Cache
I am working on a page the allows the user, once logged in, to upload information and a picture. The picture is saved as his/her username, and if they upload a different picture, the old one is still displayed unless they leave the site and come back 10+ minutes later.

I tried the HTML no-cahce headers and they don't even help load a new (up-to-date) version of the main movie.

This should have an easy solution, that Adobe should have addressed if they expect flash to be capable of being a dynamic site with user interactivity.

Any help on how to manipulate Flash into preventing it from using the cached files would be great, thanks.

How To Stop Progressive FLV From Loading In The Background?
I have a serious bandwidth problem with a site that has a couple of progressive flv files playing. I just found out that flv files didn't used to stop loading on the background even after netstream is closed, at least on some platforms had problems with this issue.

Does anyone have any recent information about this?

The two situations with the videoplayer that I am curious about:
user changes video file, by pressing a "next"-button on the videoplayer swf, but the first flv file keeps also loading on the background. In other words, the swf videoplayer is now showing the second flv, but the internet connection is used for loading two files, though the other one was already closed in the videoplayer swf, with a netstream.close...

in the other situation the user goes away from the html page that contains the swf videoplayer and I am now asking, if anyone knows what happens to netstream in this case, does the flv keep loading still? I have read some old posts from other forums, including macromedias livedocs, saying that the flvs should stop loading, but in many cases haven't.

Any help would be much appreciated!!

cheers.

Loading In A Video, How To Make It Stop
Hi,

I'm trying to stop a streaming video. Here is the code that i'm using to get the video into my swf:

Code:
onClipEvent (load)
{
System.security.allowDomain("http://video.google.com");
this.createEmptyMovieClip("skycast_mc", 10000);
this.skycast_mc.loadMovie("http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=6607453637717361634&hl=en");
this.skycast_mc._xscale = 50;
this.skycast_mc._yscale = 51;
this.skycast_mc._x += 110;
this.skycast_mc._y += 80;
}
However, when I want to stop or remove the video I have to use stopAllSounds and then remove the skycast_mc. If i don't stop all sounds and only remove the skycast_mc the sound keeps playing which makes me think that the video is still streaming.

Is there a better way of stopping and/or removing a video which has been loaded in this way other than using stopAllSound? I'm worried that using stopAllSounds is a bit of a hack.

I am not too sure about videos in Flash so if i'm doing something stupid in the above code or if i'm missing something which most folks would normally include then please let me know.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jonathan

Make MP3 Stop Playing After Loading
The following script works perfect exept for one thing. I don´t want it to start playing the first song automatically after loading is complete. What script do I have to change/add in order for the mp3 to start playing only AFTER a mouseclick on the playbutton?

<as>
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(new URLRequest("songs.xml"));

xmlLoader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, fileError);
xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, xmlLoaded);
xmlLoader.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, xmlLoading);

var xml:XML;
var songs:XMLList;

song_information.info_text.mask = song_information.info_mask;
song_information.info_text.autoSize="left";

var song_index:uint = 0;
var snd:Sound = new Sound();
var channel:SoundChannel;
var context:SoundLoaderContext;
var pausePos:Number = 0;
var music_is_paused:Boolean = false;

function fileError(e:IOErrorEvent):void {
trace("An error occured while trying to load the file");
}

function xmlLoading(e:ProgressEvent):void {

}

function xmlLoaded(e:Event):void {

xml = XML(e.target.data);
songs = xml.song;
changeTrack(song_index);

}

function changeTrack(index:uint):void{

song_information.info_text.removeEventListener(Eve nt.ENTER_FRAME, move_left);
song_information.info_text.x = 10;
snd = new Sound();
snd.addEventListener(Event.ID3, getSongData, false, 0, true);
context = new SoundLoaderContext(4000);
snd.load(new URLRequest(songs[index].attribute("file")),context);
channel = new SoundChannel();
channel = snd.play();
sound_bar.channel = channel;
music_is_paused=false;

}

function getSongData(e:Event):void{

song_information.info.visible=false;
song_information.info_text.text = snd.id3.artist + " - " + snd.id3.songName;
if(song_information.info_text.width>song_informati on.info_mask.width){
song_information.info_text.addEventListener(Event. ENTER_FRAME,move_left);
}
}

function move_left(e:Event):void{
if((song_information.info_text.x + song_information.info_text.width)>=(song_informati on.info_mask.x)){
song_information.info_text.x-=0.5;
} else {
song_information.info_text.x=10;
}
}

btnNext.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, next_song);
btnNext.buttonMode = true;

function next_song(e:MouseEvent):void{
if(song_index+1 < songs.length()){
song_index+=1;
} else {
song_index=0;
}

channel.stop();
changeTrack(song_index);
btnPlay.gotoAndStop(1);
}

btnPrevious.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, previous_song);
btnPrevious.buttonMode = true;
function previous_song(e:MouseEvent):void{
if(song_index-1 >= 0){
song_index-=1;
} else {
song_index = songs.length()-1;
}
channel.stop();
changeTrack(song_index);

btnPlay.gotoAndStop(1);
}

btnPlay.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, pauseResume);
btnPlay.buttonMode = true;

function pauseResume(e:MouseEvent){
if(music_is_paused==false){
pausePos = channel.position;
channel.stop();
btnPlay.gotoAndStop(2);
music_is_paused=true;
} else {

channel = snd.play(pausePos);
sound_bar.channel = channel;
btnPlay.gotoAndStop(1);
music_is_paused=false;
}

}
</as>

Stop Loading A Sound File (MP3)
Hi I am loading and playing a sound file using:

ActionScript Code:
mySound = new Sound(new URLRequest(track_A.mp3), buffer);
myChannel = mySound.play();

The sound loads ok and the buffer works just fine. My problem is:

In my movie, the user is going to have a NEXT button to change from an audio track to the next one; but if track_A is not finished loading, it starts playing track_B but keeps loading track_A so the computer and the connection slow down and that is very annoying.

How can I stop (or pause) the loading of a track before loading/playing the next one?

THANX IN ADVANCE

How To Stop Loading A Number Of Movies?
I'm trying to load a number of .swf movies into a movie clip and it works fine, but I have 10 movies. How do I tell Flash to go back to 0 when it gets to 10?
I've been trying to do it for hours before asking for help.
I give up.
Please Help!!!

This is the code I'm using:

increment = new Number(i++);
MovieClip = "movie" + increment + ".swf";

Stop Movies Loading Through Another Movie?
hey,

anyone know if it is possible to STOP a movie loading through another movie.

example:
if i used the code below
_root.loadMovie("movie2.swf");

it would load the movie "movie2.swf" through my present movie.

but how could i stop this from happening so if i wrote:
_root.loadMovie("movie2.swf");

it would goto a frame saying
SORRY CANT LOAD THIS MOVIE, YOU DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION
or something like that.

Varman.

How Can I Stop Loading External Jpg File?
Hi!

I have problem vith stoping loading external jpg! If I want to load another, the process is slower and both jpg files are being loaded in the movie!

Please help me!
THX...

Swf Banner Stop Loading Images
hi,
this is my first post

i have a very strange problem
i have an asp website that has alot of images, and was not has any swf,

then i made swf banner and menu that send the required page to display through javascript, and i added them to my website, so the 2 swf r in all pages.
and it was working so fine locally,
and when i upload.....
it works fine till the 2 swf is fully loaded, then the rest of images (that was not loaded) not appear, and in status bar it is done,

and when i right click, and show picture, it appear

i tried to remove the flash activex from the browser, and didn't install it (when viewing the site),
and....the site is displayed so fine, and load all images,

when i install the flash player again, the same problem comes again
so when the swfs is loaded, nothing else load after that. and the loading is stopped.....

so how to solve this??
plz help . it's so urgent

Making FLVplayback Stop Loading An FLV
This problem is driving us crazy. The idea is simple. We have one instance of the FLVplayback component on stage as well as a playlist of videos. When we click a video in the playlist the FLVplayback instance starts the progressive download and plays the video.

However, when we click a new item in the playlist, the FLVplayback instance won't start playing this file until it has completed loading the previous file. Stopping playback makes no difference.

Is there a way to stop the FLVplayback instance from playing AND downloading so it is instantly ready to start loading and playing a new one?

Of course removing the instance and attaching it again is an option, but that screws up the functionality of the player's controls and really feels like a hack that we shouldn't have to use.

Any ideas?

Okay, How Do I Stop An FLV Loading With Attachmovie Method
I have seen this question asked a couple different places. But I am yet to see the answer.

I am creating dynamic FLVPlayback componenets on my page with attachmovie.

Once I start loading paused FLV files into these components, the system sits trying to load one at a time for about 3 minutes.

How can I get the movies to stop their load after a couple seconds worth? (But not kill or replace the partial loaded, paused flv)

I have tried:
if (myVideo.bytesLoaded > 10000) {myVideo.close();}

or

if (myVideo.bufferTime > 2) {myVideo.close();}

but had no success. Anyone?

Ron R.

How To Stop LoadingMovie From Loading Again When It Is Already Loaded
I know I have created this before (just don't remember how I did it). So if someone can help it would be appreciated.

Much of the content on my website is via loadMovie (.swf) to a createEmptyMovieClip (in my main movie). I know how to do that.

What I would like is that once the loadMovie has taken place if the user happens to re-click the same button (while the loadMovie is still loaded) that it does not reload again.

Just to make sure that I am being clear here: In other words, the loaded movie has not been unloaded. It is still there, loaded up on my main movie. The way it is right now if the user happens to re-click on the same button that loaded the movie it will unload and reload again. I am (pretty) sure that there is a way to keep that from happening. I just don't recall how.

Thanks.

Stop Typewriter When Loading New Text
I'm having an issue when I'm trying to load new text into a typewriter function before it has finished writing the first text. Does anybody know how I can stop it?

Code:
TextField.prototype.typeWriter = function(str, ms) {
var me = this;
var i = 0;
var itv = setInterval(function () {
me.text = str.substring(0, i);
i++;
if (i>str.length) {
clearInterval(itv);
}
updateAfterEvent();
}, ms);
};
(it's found here http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=493)

Stop Loading Streaming Sound.
I'm building an streaming mp3 player for a friend. He wants it to have 3 sample songs that you can choose to play.

I have got the flash working with all the streaming and playing whenever you click on the buttons. However I am hoping to make the movie start loading all three to start with. Then, when you click one to play it it will stop loading the others to allow all the bandwidth to focus on the track being played. Then when this is finished loading, or they choose a different track, the loading will start again on the other songs (or the song that they clicked).

Is this even possible? And if so how do you do it? I have looked around and can't find anything to help ...

Any help would be much appreciated.

Pls Help - Stop Swf While Pre-loading

In my main movie, i have links to external swf files. Some of these are fairly large and have a preloader. How do i go about allowing the user to cancel one of these external swf files from continuing to load - ex. if the preloader is at 50% and the user wants to cancel it.