[thelist] Flash Error - XML Not Successfully Loaded - insanity
Ian Anderson
ian at zstudio.co.uk
Thu Apr 28 11:42:47 CDT 2005
Rich Points wrote:
>
> Anyway here is a page that works sometimes...do you see a Flash
> navigation? http://floodsafety.com/test/texas/index.html
>
> Why is this happening?
>
> Thanks
> Rich
Hi Rich,
the issue is sometimes to do with network latency - basically, it takes
a few milliseconds for the file to load off your disk, and maybe one or
two seconds for the data to load into the browser when the flash file is
viewed from off the server. If the timeline is playing, (depending on
frame rate set) it may have just one twelfth of a second to load the
data, which is why it may work locally but not remotely.
The flash downloads first, then the request for the data is sent back to
the server, and the Flash playhead may have moved on to another frame by
the time the data returns - too late. It all depends how the Flash movie
is structured and how the actionscript is written.
The developer should be pausing the timeline while the data has loaded
and then once it has loaded move the playhead onto the relevant frame
where the nav is displayed. There are good code samples on the
Macromedia site and elsewhere, that show how to do this, including some
neat stuff with callback functions.
Without seeing the original FLA, who knows, but the sort of thing you're
describing where it works locally but not on the server is classic of
this sort of issue.
You could post some of the actionscript, assuming you can find it in the
timeline - if you didn't author it, it's like looking for the proverbial
needle in a haystack. Or upload the fla somewhere so we can get it to
take a look.
Hope this helps
Cheers
Ian
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