 | | Re: [Flashcoders] Toggling visibility in large RIA 's a reliable
means? | Re: [Flashcoders] Toggling visibility in large RIA 's a reliable
means? 2004-03-13 - By Joe O'Brien
Back
We've built a huge Flash based system for creating complete business
applications. This framework obviously utilises forms (not the Macromedia
kind that were released with 2004) to a large extent. Some of these forms
(screens) are huge, multiple tabs, dozens of text fields, combo boxes, list
boxes, buttons - you name it - and that's per tab!
The tab system works by changing the visibility of various clips - hundreds
of movie clips at a time and it works with no issues. The only problem
we've had is that when testing within the Flash IDE, we sometimes get an
infinite loop which crashes the player. The way I figure, it has something
to do with having to remove that many clips (and components) all at once. I
haven't seen it happen within a browser though ... ???
Anyway - just to confirm - you should be fine!!!
:)
joetek
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joetek . director . team.lucid
j.at.teamlucid.com . http://teamlucid.com
sydney . launceston . australia
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On 13/3/04 4:43 AM, "John_Sheridan" <john@(protected)> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've had so many problems using multi-Frame movies for presenting
> different Application States to my users, (because of many irritating
> aspects regarding Object destruction & script execution when switching
> Frames), that I decided to once again, create a single frame movie - and
> then encapsulate all my unique "Forms" into MovieClip containers (then
> toggling visibility, when I need to present different screens).
>
> FYI: Forms / Screens are also totally useless, as they have more
> problems than you can shake a stick at.
>
> With that said, will Flash be able to handle tons and tons of MovieClip
> Containers - all sitting on a single Frame, and then work properly when
> toggling the visibility?
>
> In the past, I used to have random problems with some controls, leaving
> ghost images behind, or simply not disappearing properly - even know I
> toggled it's container, to invisible. I can't see Flash doing things a
> whole lot different internally when presenting a multi-Frame movie - and
> then switching to the next frame....
>
> Maybe things have gotten better, and are much more reliable now, with
> MX2004.
>
> Are there any caveats I should look out for, when creating a large RIA,
> with countless MovieClips (which will be loaded and/or unloaded) and
> then Visibility toggled as they are needed?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice offered,
>
> John
>
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