Loader.close(), a slippery little basted!

Posted on June 23, 2008
Filed Under AS3, Flash Tips |

I was working with the Loader class and thought that a good practice to avoid a lot of unnecessary bandwidth loadings is to clear any loading progress before I start a new one. Just to explain.. I used a array to store pages (Loaders) in the application. If the user click at the navigation nr 2 the loader in the position nr 2 in the array where told to load the new url. But if the user clicked on another link and starting to load another swf the loading of the old swf (nr 2) should stop right away.  

The method to use in the Loader class is the close() function. And the BIG problem in this is that when I tried in the flash ide the loader didn’t stop the stream… I tried everything… cleared every event listener, but in the flash “bandwidth profiler” I could see that the swf where still loading… so when I clicked at the navigation buttons as a maniac the “bandwidth profiler” showed me a bunch of loading swf simultaneously.  After a lot of tryes end error I found out the the only problem is the falsh ide and the “bandwidth profiler”. If I do the same on a web server the connection cuts of the I get a sweet “Client closed connection before receiving entire response”. So much headache for nothing…
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