Re: FLASH: Flash 4 timing loop: Problem Solved

[John Croteau]

Hi Len an d Nigel,


> EXCEPT -- I'm still bothered by that 200,000 actions limit. From this

> behavior it looks like the action list refers to all actions in the movie.

> It certainly doesn't refer to iterations within a single code block.

I think it refers to code in a single code block (frame).

The 200,000 actions are counted in "Player Actions", which are the

format of actions stored in the .swf file and not the number of actions

that are seen in the authoring tool.  An editor action is converted to

one or more (perhaps many) Player Actions.  The Player Actions will be

documented in the Flash 4 open file format specification.


> I wonder if it could kick in under other circumstances such as a game which

> was very processor intensive (multiple timing loops, some kind of

> heuristics, other iterative evaluation processes). I'd still like it removed

> regardless.

There has been a lot of complaints about the fact that there is a limit

to actionss and that the number is so arbitrarily low.


> If I want to write an infinite loop I should be able to. Heck,

> half the programs I've written have been infinite loops with some hack to

> escape them. Used to write dbase with Do While(.true.) wrapping the whole

> thing. Exit button would set .true.=.false.

Obviously, infinite loops are not going to work in Flash 4.

MM has not given much of an explanation for the limit on actions, but I

think one of the concerns is that when Flash processes actions input

control is removed from the user. Thus, allowing infinite or extremely

long action lists would appear (or in fact be) to have locked up Flash

and/or the container (browser) it is in.


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