Re: FLASH: Why the 200,000 action limit per frame?!??!

[John Dowdell]

At 3:39 PM 10/16/0, Glen Rhodes wrote:

>Is there a way of disabling the 200,000 action limit per frame??


Try searching the Macromedia Flash Technotes with keyword "limit"... this

pulls up an article on the subject.


For "why?", it's because infinite loops tend to freeze the machine, and

there needs to be some limit on how long to tie the program up without

figuring there's a scripting error.


For "How can I get what I want?" then you might consider not doing it all

in one tight loop, but to instead break it out into a repeating frame

sequence, checking each time for whether the condition has been exceeded.



Instead of this:

    for (i=0;i<=9999999999999999;i++) {

      yaddaYadda();

    }



How about:

    onClipEvent (enterFrame) {

      i = i + 1000;

      if (i < 9999999999999999) {

        for (j=0; j<1000; j++) {

          yaddaYadda();

        }

      }

    }


That second structure does a thousand operations at a chunk, then lets the

computer do its housekeeping, then returns for another big chunk, and so

on... there's no "big freeze" of spending seconds at a time tied up within

one script.


Does something like this seem like it will achieve the overall goal...?


jd









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