Flash - XML Tutorial - The Basics

By Joachim Schnier

Preloading XML files

One of the problems I encountered was when I used a button to load and at the same time parse the XML file, it worked fine on my harddrive but not on the server. Therefore, especially for large files it was necessary to preload the XML file first. I have provided a XmlPreloader component in the tutorial package and its action is shown here.

You can preload up to ten XML files ore text (.txt) files. If you don't want to use the component create a movieclip and on a keyframe of the movieclip timeline put this script inside:

                                               myXML = new XML();
                                               myXML.load("myfilename.xml");
                                               myXML.onLoad = function(success){
                                                     if(success){
                                                            trace(this.getBytesLoaded());
                                                     }
                                               }