What’s cached is the SWF file that the browser load.

Try this in your HTML that load the SWF file:

Instead of:
“main.swf”
do:
“main.swf?t=” + new Date().getTime()

This will produce a unique swf file name with the parameter based on the time, Firefox will reload the swf everytime.

Romu

Thank you!

//skin.php
$file = “skin.swf”;
header(“Date: “.date(DATE_RFC822));
header(“Server: Apache”);
header(“Last-Modified: “.date (DATE_RFC822, filemtime($file)));
$fs = stat($file);
header(“Etag: “.sprintf(‘”%x-%x-%s”‘, $fs['ino'], $fs['size'],base_convert(str_pad($fs['mtime'],16,”0″),10,16)));
header(“Accept-Ranges: bytes”);
header(“Content-Length: “.filesize($file));
header(“Keep-Alive: timeout=2, max=200″);
header(“Connection: Keep-Alive”);
header(“Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash”);
//readfile($file);

I am using this PHP code to generate skin file for application and this is one of the files, I took this headers from sniffing HTTP requests I did everything, if file is not generated by php, Somaloader works perfect, Loader class works well for both variants.And Here is the Error.

TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter bytes must be non-null.
at flash.display::Loader/_loadBytes()
at flash.display::Loader/loadBytes()
at spb.model::ApplicationDataProxy/somaLoader_completeHandler()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at com.soma.loader::SomaLoader/completeHandler()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.net::URLLoader/onComplete()
ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property width not found on String and there is no default value.
at spb.model::ContentProxy/somaLoader_completeHandler()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at com.soma.loader::SomaLoader/completeHandler()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.net::URLLoader/onComplete()

Hope you’ll find some spare time for this.And thanks.
Sincerely
Narek

If you are having time – and if you think my idea is a good addition – please feel free to email me if there are any questions or tests you want me to be apart of.

I managed my project without the somaLoaderItem.addEvent… so it is not a must-have feature – but it would have made the coding more practical and easier to write.

I kind of build it to be able to monitor without having to do that:
somaLoaderInstance.getItem(”myfile.jpg”).addEventListener

Now you are not the first one asking me this and I can undertand it might be useful.

I’ll have a look when I get a chance!

Romu

The one thing I am missing – in which will make me try out other loaders – is that I would love to be able to add event listeners to specific items, and not only to the SomaLoader-instance. I feel that it is necessary when having different classes being able to monitor and follow the specific item needed.

For now, if I want to listen for a specific item – I must listen to the SomaLoader-events – adding an if:

private function onSomaLoaderCompleteInstanceEventHandler(event:SomaLoaderEvent):void
if(event.item.file == “matchesthisfile.jpg”){
trace(“Now MY FILE was completed”)
}
}

But this seems to be a bad option if you have many places that all the time will be needing of a specific listener.

having this would be cool:
somaLoaderInstance.getItem(“myfile.jpg”).addEventListener(SomaLoaderEvent.START, onStartHandler)

I dont think this would be hard to implement without breaking anything.

loader.add( “mySWF.swf”, myId )

private function completeListener( event:SomaLoaderEvent ):void {
if( event.item.id == myId ) {
// do someth
}
}


function completeHandler(e:SomaLoaderEvent):void {
if (e.item.type == SomaLoader.TYPE_SWF) {
var movie:MovieClip = e.item.file as MovieClip;
movie.gotoAndPlay(20);
}
}


Here I cast it to a MovieClip, but try to trace(e.item.file), and you should see the Document Class of the loaded SWF, so you can cast it to another class instead of a MovieClip.


var movie:MyDocumentClass = e.item.file as MyDocumentClass;
movie.myMethod();


This has nothing to do with SomaLoader, it would be the same with a Flash built-in loader (as they are used in SomaLoader).

Romu

Thanks

Thanks for the comment

I thought a lot about having a single connection or a defined number of connections. The problem is more connections you have, less responsive the Flash Player might be (depending or what you’re loading).

The thing is I’ve never really needed that, I guess having multiple connections can be useful for mass loading from multiple domains. Otherwise, loading items from a single domain, I’m not even sure multiple connections would be quicker.

So, I still think about. Just to understand and maybe convince me, why would you need to have multiple connections for?

Romu

really awesome work you are doing. Thanks a lot.

Cool would be a option to set max parallel connections like bulkloader in the constructor:

http://www.stimuli.com.br:8080/media/projects/bulk-loader/docs/

var loader:SomaLoader = new SomaLoader();
loader.loaderContext = myLoaderContext;

is there a way to add the context for swf files ??

Niels