Comments on: Dynamic XML Slideshow in AS3

By: airheart

airheart — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:14:45 +0000

Hi Garth
thanks for the example upload, i found it while testing lots of slide shows in order to rebuild my own which was way too memory hungry, a problem i found with most examples, especially when displayed full screen, even locally. I reckon you don’t want to see my code messing up your clean work so i won’t post it here, just a thought for other people like me in need to decreas memory of a flash slide show:
having multiple alphas going at the same time, seems to bump up memory consumption substancially. To take care of this, i’ve changed the prodedure so only the current slide fades out, displaying the following one:

//************* FADE OVER ACTION (function fadeTo()***
//move slide to top for fading it out
if (this.getChildIndex(slides[this.current_slide])< this.getChildIndex(this.slides[index]))
{this.swapChildren(slides[this.current_slide], slides[index])}

And within the slide itself, just removed the fade in by setting the alpha to one straight away. I've tried several options and this one worked best for me.

All the best and thanks again.
air

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By: obsidian

obsidian — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:22:22 +0000

Thanks for the comments. For images, I like doing flash for several reasons, but one is for the ease of the individual loading. I have also run into some memory issues with larger carousels and cycles if you allow them to auto-rotate for a significant length of time.

I typically use Flex builder for the ease of compiling and debugging.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:59:43 +0000

Nice work. Nice photography as well

What would the be the benefits of doing this in Flash as opposed to jQuery? Have you seen jQuery cycle? (http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/)

Do you use Flex builder (or Flash Builder) to develop this or just the Flash code editor?

Thanks for sharing your code/techniques!