RE: FLASH: Flash 4 timing loop: Problem Solved

[Harrison, Len]

And a new one arises


Problem was that the script was being executed too many times. When I took

the trace statements out, I got a message saying that the statements in the

action list had been executed in excess of 200000 times (hey, I have a PII

400), an infinite loop was suspected, and that actions were being disabled

in this movie. This must be Macromedia trying to save us from ourselves

though I wish they wouldn't. Seriously. My code, my responsibility. 


SO, now the question comes up: what is an action list? Is it the set of all

actions within a movie? Remember this thing moved out of the frame,

theoretically resetting the if statement and then went back into it again.

If that's the case, I can easily imagine cases where 2,000,000 individual

statements might be executed. Is this thing only active in the authoring

environment, or is that silly "we think you don't know what you're doing"

counter running in your presentation environment whether browser, Director,

standalone, VB, Authorware, or whatever.


Anyone know anything about this? Is there a way to turn it off?


Macromedia?


len harrison

instructional designer

lenhabtcorp [dot] com

> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Harrison, Len [lharrisonabtcorp [dot] com (mailto:lharrisonabtcorp [dot] com)]

> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 12:15 PM

>

To: flashershocker [dot] com

> Subject: FLASH: Flash 4 timing loop

> 

> 

> Hi all,

> 

> Feeling very dumb today. 

> Objective: Display a splash screen with option buttons for m 

> milliseconds,

> then go on to main movie.

> 

> Things I've tried:

> Single Frame:

> Stop

> Set Variable: "interval" = 10000

> Set Variable: "startTime" = GetTimer

> Loop While (True)

>       Set Variable: "thisTime" = GetTimer

>       If (startTime + interval  >=  thisTime)

>             Load Movie ("Overview.swf", 0)

>             FS Command ("loadMovie", "00Overview.swf")

>       End If

> End Loop

> 

> Assumption: loop will terminate when Overview.swf loads into level0.

> 

> Behavior: Overview.swf initalizes in about 1500 ms., not 10,000.

> 

> Multiframe

> 

> Frame 70:

> Set Variable: "interval" = 10000

> Set Variable: "startTime" = GetTimer

> 

> Frame 80:

> Stop

> Set Variable: "thisTime" = GetTimer

> If (startTime + interval  >=  thisTime)

>       Load Movie ("Overview.swf", 0)

>       FS Command ("loadMovie", "00Overview.swf")

> Else

>       Go to Next Frame

> End If

> 

> Frame 81:

> Go to Previous Frame

> 

> Assumptions: None that I know of

> 

> Behavior: More or less the same as before

> 

> Variant: replaced If (startTime + interval  >=  thisTime)

>          with If ((startTime + interval)  >=  thisTime)

> Result: no change

> 

> I have several other variants and a bunch of traces thrown in 

> for some, but

> all behave the same way, essentially and these are the two main

> alternatives. 

> 

> Does anyone have a clue what I'm doing wrong here?

> 

> BTW the Load Movie and FS loadMovie commands are old code, 

> tested, and work

> okay by themselves. They exist to support multiple platforms 

> (browsers and

> Director, which doesn't support layered .swfs)

> 

> TIA,

> 

> len harrison

> instructional designer

>

lenhabtcorp [dot] com

> 

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