Re: [Solution] MovieClipLoader woes (IrritatingBugAlert!)

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[Solution] MovieClipLoader woes (Irritating Bug...
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Subject:	Re: [Solution] MovieClipLoader woes (IrritatingBugAlert!)
Group:	Flashcoders
From:	Ian Thomas
Date:	28 Feb 2007

*sigh* Yes - just a typo on my part.

Cheers,
Ian

On 2/28/07, Karina Steffens <karina> wrote:
> H Ian,
>
> _level0.nav1.nav.mod0.inst0.clip1.inst1.inst2.inst1.res17
>
> You still have inst1 duplicated here - or is this a typo?
>
> Thanks for sharing your findings, btw :)
>
> Karina
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ian Thomas [mailto:ian]
> > Sent: 26 February 2007 18:42
> > To: Flashcoders mailing list
> > Subject: [Flashcoders] [Solution] MovieClipLoader woes
> > (Irritating BugAlert!)
> >
> > Hi folks,
> > I just thought I'd share the solution to this - a very irritating
> > AS2 bug/feature that took me an age to track down.
> >
> > If you have a bunch of nested movieclips and any of them (down the
> > chain) share a name, such as:
> >
> > _level0.nav1.nav.mod0.inst0.clip1.inst0.inst0.inst1.res17
> >
> > (I know, not terribly readable, but autogenerated by our
> > clip-creation code. Note all the 'inst0's)
> >
> > then loadMovie() (and by extension, MovieClipLoader) will
> > silently fail. MovieClipLoader will trigger no listener
> > events at all, not even an error. And whereas loadMovie()
> > will trace a semi-useful error (that it can't find the clip),
> > MovieClipLoader won't trace anything at all.
> >
> > Changing it to:
> > _level0.nav1.nav.mod0.inst0.clip1.inst1.inst2.inst1.res17
> >
> > (i.e. getting rid of all the 'inst0' duplicates)
> >
> > solves the problem.
> >
> > Flash itself can cope quite happily with clips named the same
> > thing in a clip chain. It only falls over when loading into
> > one of the children.
> >
> > If anyone wants to share my pain, the full rundown is here:
> >
> > http://wildwinter.blogspot.com/2007/02/irritating-bugs-no-1679
> > a-loadmovie-and.html
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ian
> >
> > On 2/26/07, Ian Thomas <ian> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > Has anyone ever come across a situation where
> > MovieClipLoader just
> > > refuses to fire any events whatsoever?
> > >
> > > The situation:
> > >
> > > - Flash 8, running in IDE or as local projector (on Win XP)
> > > - A whole pile of successful MovieClipLoader calls have been made
> > > (probably 50 or so by this stage), _including_ the very same bit of
> > > code which later fails.
> > > - Nothing else is loading/streaming at the same time.
> > > - Three calls (in rapid succession) are made to a function
> > which does
> > > the following:
> > >
> > > - creates a new MovieClipLoader
> > > - creates a new MovieClip (at a new depth)
> > > - assigns a new listener for the MovieClipLoader
> > > - starts loading a .swf into the clip.
> > >
> > > The first two times, it works perfectly. The third time, no
> > events are
> > > fired and the clip apparently doesn't load.
> > >
> > > On each occasion, we wait for the previous load to successfully
> > > complete first (onLoadInit) before we call the function again.
> > >
> > > Completely repeatable each time.
> > >
> > > The loaded .swf isn't doing anything odd (it contains no
> > code whatsoever).
> > >
> > > *sigh*
> > >
> > > Any ideas? Or robust alternatives to MovieClipLoader? (Bokel's
> > > LoaderClass is a little heavyweight for what I want to do,
> > but I might
> > > take a look at it).
> > >
> > > Ian
> > >
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