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martin
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# Posted: 22 Dec 2008 09:47
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Hi
I have a question before purchasing the coverflow component. I've looked over the documentation but I'm unsure about the following issue.
Can the data source (the xml file) be updated at runtime, so a new data feed can be loaded at runtime?
Have you thought about only loading images when needed, instead of loading all images on initialization? Which would facilitate a much larger number of images to be displayed without changing the data source.
(which is a feature I would like :) )
regards
martin
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matus
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# Posted: 22 Dec 2008 10:20
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Hi,
currently one can update the images only by initializing the tool with new data source xml file.
Currently only the images which are shown are loaded, and in case all the shown images are loaded, the script continues with pre-loading the images which are out of the visible view. This can be changed easily to not to preload the images which are not shown.
Regards,
Matus.
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martin
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# Posted: 22 Dec 2008 12:34
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Hi,
Thank you for the quick reply.
matus wrote:
"currently one can update the images only by initializing the tool with new data source xml file."
Does this mean that I will have to completely dispose the component and create a new instance with a new data source? Is this possible at runtime, or do I have to do some trickery with loading the component into a container swf?
regards
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matus
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# Posted: 22 Dec 2008 12:41
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Hmm,
I think when I was programming the cowerflow it was designed to be a single swf displayed in a webpage and so there are no routines implemented to change the data source at runtime. What is more important, there are no routines to free memory.
So - without updating the code - I do not recommend use it as a component.
I am not sure how the container trickery works with freeing the memory, but you can give it a try.
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martin
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# Posted: 22 Dec 2008 14:05
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alright, thank you for your help :)
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sbathini
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# Posted: 10 Aug 2010 06:45
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Is it possible to provide a URL location for coverFeed.xml to dynamically use different coverFeed.xml based on page content?
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