Checking for frame loaded?

[solomatrix]

The first frame of my swf contains a lot of xml stuff that it gets out of a db. When it's done with that I need it to goto frame 10.

Right now at the bottom of the as in frame 1 I have gotoAndPlay(10). The problem is that 10 loads text before 1 is done with xml stuff so the text gets whited out with a function thats in 1.

Is there a way with "_framesloaded" that I can make sure it's loaded before going to 10?

Thanks

[cancerinform]

You can create an empty movie with an empty movieclip first where you load your main movie in. Once your main movie is loaded into the movieclip you can have a loadMovieNum function to replace the whole empty movie with your main movie. I made a preloader component which can do that.

[iguanagirl32]

My understanding is that the SWF will not start playing until frame 1 is loaded...so since you are calling the XML dynamically, Flash thinks that frame 1 is fully loaded, even though the XML is still being read...my suggestion would be to put a stop action on frame 1. then have the viewer begin the movie on button press...

[solomatrix]

Cancer - I dont really see how that would help my frame (and I couldn't do it anyways with how I have it set up thus far). Looking for an AS way out of this.

Iguana - that's how I have it set up now, but my boss wants it to default to frame 10 and I have to load frame 1 first.

Appreciate the help.

I just inserted a time delay of 2 seconds before it goes to frame 10 and that works for now. I'm just afraid if the db gets bogged down that 2 seconds might not be long enough.

Any other suggestions welcome.

[a_modified_dog]

try something like-
frame1 -

stop();
myxml = new XML();
myxml.load(url);
myxml.onLoad = function(){
gotoAndPlay(10);
}

hth

[solomatrix]

That would work except for I use "urlxml = new xml();" more than once so it wont work if i just stick

stop();

urlxml.onLoad = function(){
	gotoAndPlay(8);
}

at the end.

Here's what I'm workin with:

code:

---

function changecolor(btn_name, thecolor, thealpha) {

	myColor = new Color(eval("_root."+btn_name));

	myColor.setRGB(thecolor);

	eval(btn_name)._alpha=thealpha;

}



//XML DATA GATHERING BEGIN

	urlXML = new XML();

//when the xml data has loaded, we want the XML Object to run the convertXML function

	urlXML.onLoad = convertXML;

//strip out formatting - otherwise, it will count formatting as an element.

	urlXML.ignoreWhite = true;

	urlXML.load("http://helpdesk/shared/beta/xmlloc.asp?siteid="+strSiteID);



function convertXML() {

    var Root = this.childNodes[0];

	var arrRooms = Root.childNodes;

	for (i=0; i<=arrRooms.length-1; i++) {

		var templid = arrRooms[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue;

		var thebutton = "btn_"+templid;

		var thetext   = "txt_"+templid;

		var thecolor  = "0xffffff";

		eval(thetext).text = "";

		_root.changecolor(thebutton,thecolor,10);

	}

}

function whiteout() {

	urlXML = new XML();

	urlXML.onLoad = doWhiteOutXML;

	urlXML.ignoreWhite = true;

	urlXML.load("http://helpdesk/shared/beta/xmlloc.asp?siteid="+strSiteID);



	function doWhiteOutXML() {

	    var Root = this.childNodes[0];

		var arrRooms = Root.childNodes;

		for (i=0; i<=arrRooms.length-1; i++) {

			var templid = arrRooms[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue;

			var thebutton = "btn_"+templid;

			var thetext   = "txt_"+templid;

			var thecolor  = "0xffffff";

			eval(thetext).text = "";

			_root.changecolor(thebutton,thecolor,10);

		}

	}

}

//Defaults to room #'s



//Creates delay before displaying rm #

//Without delay text from frame 10 gets whited out

//function delay(){

//	gotoAndPlay(8);

//	clearInterval(timer);

//}



//Sets delay at 2 seconds

//timer = setInterval(delay, 2000);



stop();



urlxml.onLoad = function(){

	gotoAndPlay(8);

}

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[a_modified_dog]

as you have already created an onLoad function -
urlXML.onLoad = convertXML;
why not, -

function convertXML() {
// other code
gotoAndPlay(8);
}

does this help ??