Loading Reloaded

Yay! This class is awesome. Thanks heaps for sharing it.

v handy, I'm dealing with a priority loading feature right now ;) I'll look at using it... thanks a mill ;)

Looks amazing! Thanks!

But what if you have to load 2 files with the same filename but from two different folders?

Shouldn't it be better something like this: loader.getBitmap("/folder?/bg.jpg");

Hi Folks,

Thanks for the good words.

Doob: I didn't make myself very clear, but you can specify urls as you see fit:

   loader.add("level1/bg.jpg");
   loader.add("level2/bg.jpg");
   loader.add("");
   

Cheers

Thanks, great loader. We did add it in our bookmarks.

Folks, I'd ask using the google's for suggestions and feature requests, just so that they don't get lost, but they're dutifully noted.

: This seems like a good idea. Thanks

McBride: As3 is capable of actually closing the connection, thus freeing bandwidth, which is great. Currently changing an item's priority mid flight would reflect on the queue on the next available connection, but wouldn't close a loading operation in place.

This is really good. Thanks!

This is great.

It would be nice if the LoadingItem stored a ref to the bulkLoader that contained it. This would allow eg. a thumbnail gallery to use myLoadingItem.bulkloader.getBitmap("id") when a LoadingItem it has been tracking is complete without it needing to store a ref to the bulkLoader or get a ref using its static methods.

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Sure can, the , or the short story:

   // get progress for main video only:
   loader.get("my_video.flv").addEventListener("onProgress", onVideoProgress);
   

For a variety of reasons (mostly memory management) I work hard not to expose LoadingItem instances too much. The way to get a handle of a BulkLoader instance is:

   var loader : BulkLoader = new BulkLoader("main-site");
   // later anywhere on your code you can fetch
   // a reference to this BulkLoader instance 
   // using the static function BulkLoader,getLoader:
   var loader : BulkLoader =  BulkLoader.getLoader("main-site");
   

Hi .. API is cool ... But I din found ApplicatoinDomain settings for loading external swf file and getting classes from it.. Is it there ?

It would be great, if it would be possible, to get a list with all registered IDs

Hey great job with this class, very usefull!

I was wondering if you have any sample files showing some basic usage?... In your download zip the examples folder there is nothing. (I was having a couple of issues with an error while trying your code post above so I was hoping to see a working example to see where i'm going wrong)

Hey Arthur, great work!

I want to use this package, but it throws an Exception.

German Error Message: TypeError: Error #1034: Typumwandlung fehlgeschlagen: flash.events::IOErrorEvent kann nicht in br.com.stimuli.loading.BulkErrorEvent umgewandelt werden. at flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunction() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent() at

flash.net::URLLoader/flash.net:URLLoader::redirectEvent()

It says that its not able to convert the Event-Object to an BulkErrrorEvent-Object.

Do you have an idea on this?

: I believe this issue was fixed in reviision 65, can you download the latest version and try with that one?

: What doesn't work means? You get compile errors ? Where? If you post more info, I'll fix this asap

Excellent! Simple and powerful :D

It's better to post this on the projects bug tracker at google code, so it doesn't get lost. I've created a and will be tracking this shortly. Thanks for the report.

Thx. I thought i was having the newest one, but now it works fine.

I've got a little question: I'am preloading my contents in the queue. Is there an easy way to change an LoadingItems priority?

Or do I need to remove the item and add it again with the highest priority?

Hi Arthur Debert, firstly i'd like congratulate you by the excellent work realized in gringo and by this project now. I tried run a example with BulkLoader and i not had success. I get the error message with BulkProgressEvent, look.

1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: BulkProgressEvent.

The source was created with base in the documentation from svn.

Hi Matt.

I've been using BulkLoader on I.E. without any issues, so I think I need a bit more information on this:

• • Which version of i.e ?
• • Can you provide a sample of the code you are working with?

As a general note, this is not be best place for bug reports or questions.

I've setup a exactly for that , so it's easier to follow. I'd ask to post questions over there.

Thanks Arthur

Great Class, thanks a lot!

A correction to my previous post.. the creator's name of the Class is Arthur not Matt.... Sorry about that.

dude your a legend.. this is just what I needed.

Great job. One idea for a newer version-- an Event.COMPLETE that triggers whenever any single file is done loading, rather than having to add individual listeners...

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Sure you can, with only one caveat: if you add items to a bulk loader instance before it's finished loading, your are golden. Else, if you add an item after the bulk loader is done loading all of it's assets, you must call

<bulkLoader>.start

Awesome, I was going to make something like this, but probably much less functional and reliable, so this saves a lot of time.

Looking forward to usingit

I just saw that this was already discussed my appologies for repeating it...

great work, awesome class. we use it along with our framework and swfaddress and all works great!

q: is it possible to access/display the id of and item during the loadingProgress like:

private function onProgress(event:BalkProgressEvent):void { trace(event.id); }

best michael

Hi,

Nice work, I'm using it on a project which has a lot of gallery.

Would it be possible to add a functionality?

instead of add an item and create a line for each item or use a loop:

loader = new BulkLoader(nameGallery); for (var i:uint = 0; i < myArrayOfFiles.length; i++) { loader.add(myArrayOfFiles[i]); } loader.start();

Could you parse the type or add another public method? To get:

loader.add(myArrayOfFiles); or loader.addItems(myArrayOfFiles);

Maybe it is already possible?

Romuald

Folks, as stated above, this thread is way to long, and not a very good place for discussions. If possible, please direct your queries to the .

Thanks

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Sure, just use a evt.target.id

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It already does. It just requires some attention on you part to whether you'd like to manage two queues or actually one huge queue with the priorities being shuffled.

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This seems way to spefic, and will only save you one line of code. ;-)

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Sure is, just watch out for using the same ApplicationDomain (usuning the same Context instance), the mailing list has a few posts about this.

I tried out BulkLoader library and its really fantastic. Thank You very much for this great job.

Hey, found a great workaround to my previous post.

public function load_object(path, num, complete_function) { var object_id:String = "LoadObject_"+num.split("_")[0]+"_"+num.split("_")[1]; if (loader.get(object_id)!= null){ spawn_image_container(loader.get(object_id), object_id.toString().split("_")); }else{ loader.add(path, {priority:10,id:object_id}); loader.get(object_id).addEventListener(BulkLoader.COMPLETE, complete_function); } }

Hi i just found that the loader will fail on complete when i try to load an image that is generated by a script. Due to some limitations of the CMS i use i had to call a file called imghandler.HTML and the loader failed. I checked the headers with my proxy and they where fine. Now that i've managed to call the image through a script called imagehandler.JPG everything works fine although the output and headers are exactly the same.

Great class mate. Exactly what I was looking for!

Does this class support RTMP streaming?

Thank you, very usable! :)

Thank you!!!!!!!!! I've been searching for something like this a ling time!

Good job!

Very Nice! This is some piece of work! Thanks for your contribution. I am going to make sure my users are aware of this library.

Thanks for the kind words.

I do ask, however, to point usage questions to the , as it is a much better venue for this.

Cheers Arthur Debert

I truly appreciate your work! Thank You!

I am learning your package, and realized that in order for me to implement the BulkLoader.as, I would need to restructure my code. I don't fully understand the intricacies of the Object Tree, but I had an idea that you might be able to add a MovieClip or Sprite instance in the BulkLoader.add(url, mc), with the data loaded from the URL placed in the mc.

Just an idea.

thanks for your contributions.

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Thanks for the heads up!

Is there any documentation or examples on preloading fonts ttf & other types?

_bulkLoader.add("http://example.ru/manager/?xml", {id:"managerXml"});

_bulkLoader.start();

var mXML : XML = _bulkLoader.getXML("managerXml");

Error: [BulkLoader] Failed to get content with url: 'managerXml'as type: [class XML]

How load this xml?

Hi,

I'm trying to get progress event on multiple loading of FLVs.(30 of them!) I'm using the weight property but still only getting 1 progress event firing . What could I be doing wrong??

var loader:BulkLoader = new BulkLoader("3dMgtPreloader");

loader.add(MovieClip(parent).MyMigraine_Intro_mc.source, {weight:812, type:"video"}); loader.add(MovieClip(parent).MyMigraine_Main_mc.source, {weight:2209,type:"video", pausedAtStart:true}); //MyMigraine_Pan_mc.source, {type:"video", pausedAtStart:true}); loader.add(MovieClip(parent).MyMigraine_Replay_mc.source, {weight:338,type:"video", pausedAtStart:true}); loader.add(MovieClip(parent).MyMigraine_Help_mc.source, {weight:3175,type:"video", pausedAtStart:true}); loader.add(MovieClip(parent).MyMigraine_FlyUpA_mc.source, {weight:552,type:"video", pausedAtStart:true}); loader.add(MovieClip(parent).MyMigraine_FlyUpB_mc.source, {weight:600,type:"video", pausedAtStart:true});

loader.addEventListener(BulkLoader.PROGRESS, onAllProgress); //loader.addEventListener(BulkLoader.COMPLETE, onComplete);

loader.start()

function onAllProgress(e:ProgressEvent){

var perc1:Number = Math.floor(e.bytesLoaded * 100 / e.bytesTotal);

var perc:Number = loader.itemsLoaded / loader.itemsTotal;

}

Do you know of a class like this for actionscript 2?

Hi Junio Vitorino, I am facing the same problem. Can you please tell me, how did you solve this.

1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: BulkProgressEvent.

everything was working fine before copying all the files from SVN

Brilliant brilliant class. Takes the preloader pain away. Thanks Arthur.

For anyone else struggling with the infamous null Object errors when loading swfs via Bulkloader, here's something basic you could check for.

Any stage references in the controller class of the swf being loaded might throw the whole thing off. In my stupid case, it was a stage.stageHeight access that broke the whole damn thing.

The best I could think of was pulled out the constructor code and pushed into another function (initClass). And then well..

public function controller():void { addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE. initClass); }

That fixed it, for now. So, just in case anyone else is stuck with something similar, there. That helped me.

Nice Article. Hope for few more.

Hi,

This is great, however I'm struggling to "refresh" a swf loaded with bulkloader. I successfully load several game swf's and when the user is done with one they return to main menu. However when they return to that game it is in it's completed state, and I'm trying to reset it. Using removeChild doesn't do it, am I looking at this the wrong way? many thanks

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