I took the time tonight to just clean out as many glitches as possible with the code on the XML slideshow I’ve been working on for a while. There are now no useless running loops and the memory usage has been greatly improved.
I was noticing severe performance issues when there were more than three instances of the slideshow on one page. After some testing, I have found no problems with performance and my system shows no CPU usage at all until moving to the next slide of a particular slideshow. If you want to test it out for yourself, please, have a look.
I’m really happy with these improvements and other than one area in the code, I feel like it’s ready to be wrapped up. The content creation aspect is something I’d like to work on in the future. I caught a glimpse of a cool project called PHPThumb. I’d like to incorporate their engine with a web-based file-upload/XML-writing tool that will allow me to not have to create thumbnails or edit XML by hand. If those can be done and a fairly nice calendar feature is added, this is one damned cool little project.
The Discussion
4 Comments on “Flash XML Slideshow performance improved”me
9.02.05 1:22 amStill needs some work…
Sam
9.02.05 11:33 pmForget PHPthumb. Check out gallery:
http://gallery.sf.net/
Petter
27.01.08 2:11 pmAnother useless XML flash photo slider!!!
Is it possible to get a flash photo slider that takes the XML file as parameter.
How I can use the same Flash component with different galleries(folders)???
I don’t want to do a copy/past of the swf file in each folders!
Even this one is really neat, it doesn’t solve my problem
I’m not flash programmer, but is there some (security) restrictions to do what I want???
somerandomdude
27.01.08 10:47 pmAs you can see, this slideshow was made a long time ago when I was at a considerably different stage in my Actionscript experience. This gallery is not worth using nowadays and I am highly considering removing it from my list of projects.
With advances in web technologies, I highly suggest moving away from Flash for general slideshow uses and moving to a Javascript package. There are plenty of AJAX slideshows out there, some Googling will offer up a bounty.
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