AS2: publishing bug thing?

[windofdeath]

heya all. sorry for my poor english at some points but i think your able to understand my problem anyways.

the project:
i made a project at wich i have a stage with 3 layers.

1. actions layer ( guess whats in here hehe)
2. a layer with a movieclip with the instance name "test"
3. a layer with 3 buttons. with the following instance names: knop1, knop2, knop3

when i load the flash app. my actionscript will create a movieclip inside the test MC. this movie clip is called movie + i ( a counter variable).

the first movie will be called movie0.
in movie0 ill load an image with loadMovie ('imagename', 'movie0');

on a press of 1 of the buttons, a new MC gets made ( movie1), new image gets loaded in to that.

the layer above that ( still movie0) is fading out with the following loop:

test["movie"+i].onEnterFrame = function(){
		if(test["movie"+(i-1)]._alpha<=0) {
			trace('succes');
			delete this.onEnterFrame;
			removeMovieClip('test.movie'+(i-1));
			doneLoading = true;
		}		
		else {
			test["movie"+(i-1)]._alpha -= 10;
		}
	}

the strange thing:
the whole animation works PERFECT when testing it in flash with ctrl+enter.
it takes half a seccond till the image is faded. ( my FPS is set to 20)

but when i publish the movie, the first time i press a button it takes 0.5 seccond. the next it takes 0.25 , the one after takes 0.125 etc etc.

how is this possible? i had it with another app aswell? is it a bug in my flash maybe? the teacher giving me simple workshops in flash didnt know why it was, and he checked my publishing settings wich were all correct.

for an example of the app:
http://crimsonred.nl/flash/test.swf ( PS. its all .png files, so it takes a while before the new image is loaded in, didnt make a loader function yet since i first want to fix this problem, allso the test["movie"+(i-1)]._alpha -= 10; is set to -= 1; instead of 10 to make a more clear example)

thanks for helping in advance

[glosrfc]

Originally Posted by windofdeath

but when i publish the movie, the first time i press a button it takes 0.5 seccond. the next it takes 0.25 , the one after takes 0.125 etc etc.

Are you using setInterval in your code anywhere? This type of behaviour is typically exhibited when you don't clear the interval, i.e.
setInterval is fired...
...something happens...
another setInterval is fired...
...something else happens...
BUT..the original thing is still happening...

The problem is worse if your movie is playing. For example, you have a setInterval call every second in frame 12 and your movie is running at 12fps.
The first time the setInterval is called, things seem to be fine. But, 1 second later, the playhead reaches frame 12 again, so another interval is created. Meanwhile, 1 second has passed since the first interval fired, so it fires again. Now you have TWO intervals operating usually half a second apart.
When frame 12 is reached, a third interval is created but the original interval fires after 1 second too. And so does the second interval. Now the interval length is cut to one quarter of a second apart.
After just a few seconds, you can easily end up with a lot of intervals running, and each time the interval delay is cut by half, i.e. 1 second, 0.5 seconds, 0.25 seconds, 0.125 seconds

A similar thing can happen when the movie is playing and the onEnterFrame is continually being called. You start with one onEnterFrame, playhead hits the frame containing your actionscript...you have two onEnterFrame events. The playhead hits the frame containing your actionscript again...you have three onEnterFrame events. And so on. Try inserting a stop(); in your actionscript and then use play(); only once you're sure that all of the images have been loaded.

[windofdeath]

nopes not using any

i ut the fla online.
its a CS3 file:

http://www.crimsonred.nl/flash/poging1.fla

i know its not verry ordened and stuff but well im kinda new to flash ehehe

[glosrfc]

I can't access CS3 files so I can only give you an idea of what the cause might be. Have you checked the edit I made though..read the last paragraph.

[windofdeath]

if(test["movie"+(i-1)]._alpha<=0) {
trace('succes');
delete this.onEnterFrame;
removeMovieClip('test.movie'+(i-1));
doneLoading = true;
}

when i remove the remove movieclip thing and the delete this.onEnterFrame, it keeps tracing succes
and when i put 1 of both back in, it only returns the trace('succes') once.
so i doubt thats the problem heren :S..


if you want i can post the full AS?

[windofdeath]

found the problem.
when i put compress movie off, it seems to solve it for some reason. strange :S

never mind. it still freaks out. just takes longer till it starts :S
24 button presses to be exact.

http://crimsonred.nl/flash/poging1einde.html <-- new example of the app

[glosrfc]

Glad you solved it...and yes, it does seem strange. Are you publishing for FP 6 or higher?

[windofdeath]

flash player 9.

some guy on another forum wrote a whole new code for me in 10 minutes ( damn i wanna be able to do that too /jealouse) his code works fine.

its like... same base. but he typed it a lot cleaner, and loaded the images from an array instead of from just variables. might just be the thing...