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RE: Motion tracking with Flash and ActionScript 3

PO — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:53:08 GMT

GOOD @@ THANKS

RE: ActionScript 3 timeout problems when working with XML

dave — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:39:46 GMT

Oh man this was a lifesaver. I was using the descendant accessor all over the place and my compiler was choking on a 5500 line xml file. I optimized my loops as suggested and now it not only compiles without timing out but does so in a few seconds. thanks!

RE: ActionScript 3 timeout problems when working with XML

gom — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:46:25 GMT

I've solved same problem by using XMLList. Thank you for good posting.

RE: ActionScript 3 timeout problems when working with XML

Admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:12:35 GMT

@bijo. If you've followed the advice in this article and you're still having problems, then I think your XML file is probably just too large. If I was you, I would split it into much smaller sections and load them 1 at a time as they're needed.

RE: ActionScript 3 timeout problems when working with XML

Bijo — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:56:35 GMT

Dear Richard, I went through your article and found it to be very interesting. Now, I'm having a similar problem in loading large xml files. I have a question bank of appr. 10,000 questions. I divided it into various unit xmls of average 1000 nodes. I'm using a custom class to store individual questions, options,the answer and the user answer. But while loading the questions from xml to the variable in the instance of the class, flash hangs saying, 1502 A script has executed for longer than the default timeout period of 15 seconds. Is there a better way to do this? Please help. Thanks, Bijo

RE: ActionScript 3 timeout problems when working with XML

Gary — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:40:25 GMT

Instead of doing what you do in the second loop, you could just use the for each construct instead: for each (var director:XML in filmCollectionXML..director) { ... } When you use a for each it only evaluates the xpath expression once.

RE: Choosing a font

RichardG — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:31:16 GMT

Cool. Thanks Dave!

RE: Choosing a font

David J — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:32:29 GMT

Love it Rich, I'm just about to send it around work :)

RE: Flash Flickr viewer

RichardG — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:25:07 GMT

I've extended this so that it will take you to see the photo on Flickr when you click it.

RE: The machines and monsters of Marshalls Mills

RichardG — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:32:44 GMT

Next time I will:

Charge more
Research projectors more
Do a trial run

RE: The machines and monsters of Marshalls Mills

RichardG — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

This was the official response from The Culture Company:

I am sorry to say that we didn't select your proposal on this occasion against tough competition.
The panel actually really liked your concept but our main concern was that it was very under-costed for the technical requirements in order to achieve the really strong impact it set out to achieve (no details given on the strength of the projection etc).
This was based on the professional opinion of two of the panel members who are very experienced in projection/new media installation in the public realm.
There was also concerns that the model was not sufficiently tested to guarantee it would work consistently in the public domain.
However your proposal did make it through to the final round and if we had been in a position to have had bigger budgets available for the commissioning process we would have seriously considered its further development.

I could have made it work, but I understand why they were looking for people with more experience in this field. You can find out more about the submissions that were successful here:

Secrets and Light exhibition