Quick and short post. Due to a suggestion from Ryan Ragona I checked out how much resources the circle loader took up and it was pretty unacceptable. I re-wrote the class so that it snapshots the vectors to a bitmap object and rotates that instead of the vectors (vectors are now never even added to the display list)
CPU usage on my dual 3.2 went from 11% to 1%. Quite a difference. I would strongly encourage you to re-download it if you plan to use it. (I also updated the original link)
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July 22nd, 2008 at 7:22 am
Great website!! congratulations! Your jobs and lab archives are very inspiratory!
July 24th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Great job Erik! I should mention, you’re an amazing programmer and I’ll probably ask you for more AS3 help than CSS - you seem to be amazing at what you do :).
July 29th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Good one. Post more good stuffs!!!
November 5th, 2008 at 6:31 am
Hi,
excuse me but i’m not able to make it work as preloader for external swf…i’m able to isolate the snake circle but i don’t understand how can i use it as preloader…can u post the code please??
example: (AS3) first the snake circle… then url request for external swf
thank u