onClipEvent (News Loader) 1

[Copierbw]

I am creating a "News" section that loads text from a flat text file into a dynamic text field in Flash. I am using the "onClipEvent" to do a bit of pre-loading while the text are loaded from the file. To test the streaming I made up a 400kB test file but are encountering a problem. Once I click the "load news" button there is quite a long delay before it actually goes the (Wait loading news...) frame. The whole thing works better when the file is smaller but for me that's defying the purpose and it would suggest it's not working the way it should. Has anyone used the same method with a large file? Maybe I'm doing something wrong..Thanks..

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[billwatson]

if you have mx you should be using loadvars. no preloading needed.

400kb is probably more a novel than a news item.


you can always just type 'Wait loading News......' into the dynamic text box and that will be overwritten once the variables load.