totalBytes works only on local machine

[k/smaert]

I have made a preloader showing the progress of dynamically added images. The code works fine when i play the movie on local machine, but when i play the movie from the server bytesTotal is always 0. It even says 0 after the images has finished loading.

what i'm doing is basically: createEmptyMovieClip() , i then use a movieClipLoader to load jpeg into that empty movieclip. the movieClipLoader has a listener attached and with the listener i use the function onLoadProgress() to display bytesLoaded and bytesTotal

all of these things occur within one function..

bytesLoaded works fine both on local machine and from the server

[BlueBoots]

Originally posted by k/smaert
I have made a preloader showing the progress of dynamically added images.
<-- I used external .swfs, but it's the same thing really./>

The code works fine when i play the movie on local machine, but when i play the movie from the server bytesTotal is always 0. It even says 0 after the images has finished loading.
<-- Bummer./>

what i'm doing is basically: createEmptyMovieClip() , i then use a movieClipLoader to load jpeg into that empty movieclip. the movieClipLoader has a listener attached and with the listener i use the function onLoadProgress() to display bytesLoaded and bytesTotal

<-- I avoided this stuff. I'm in MX, and I used a cycling loader.
Frame one on the main timeline, instead of creating an empty clip I attached a blank movie clip from my library off to one side of the stage:

attachMovie("blank","hold1",1);
attachMovie("blank","hold2",2);

hold1.loadMovie("YourImage1.swf");
hold1._x = -800;

hold2.loadMovie("YourImage2.swf");
hold2._x = -800;

and I gave them new easy instance names.

Instead of your listener, I used addition.

On Frame Three of the main timeline I have :


loadedBytes = this.getBytesLoaded() + hold1.getBytesLoaded() + hold2.getBytesLoaded();

totalBytes = this.getBytesTotal() + hold1.getBytesTotal() + hold2.getBytesTotal();


if (loadedBytes == totalBytes) {
_root.gotoAndPlay(5);
}
percentage = Math.round(loadedBytes/(totalBytes/100));
loader.gotoAndStop(percentage);
loader.counter.percent.text = percentage;


This means I can change the content of the externally loaded files nice'n'easy.
The last thing of course, is to tell it on Frame Four of the Main Timeline:

gotoAndPlay(2);

So it cycles. Looks harder than it is. I pushed the loader on Frame Three a frame away from the attach script on Frame One, because some stupidly old machines repeatedly attached the movies!

/-->

all of these things occur within one function..
<-- That might be your problem...
/-->
bytesLoaded works fine both on local machine and from the server

Let me know if it doesn't work, k?

<blue/>

[k/smaert]

<-- I avoided this stuff. I'm in MX, and I used a cycling loader./-->

all of these things occur within one function..
<-- That might be your problem...
/-->

yeah i might have to break it all apart and create the cycly loader you are talking about..i just thought since there are functions for doing all this in one frame i might as well us it...the onLoadProgress is working as the cyclic loader..it just won't display the correct totalBytes when loading from server


loadListen[i].onLoadProgress = function(clip, bytesLoaded, bytesTotal){ //display download status of picture
var nr = parseInt(clip._name.substr(clip._name.lastIndexOf("p")+1));
var stats:Object = imgLoad[nr].getProgress(clip);
_root["imgL"+nr].text= "Bytes loaded: " + stats.bytesLoaded +" of "+ stats.bytesTotal;
_root["imgL"+nr].setTextFormat(text_format);
}