Flash XML Caching Solution

20.08.05 @ 11:17 am

I have found quite a few people run into this problem from time to time and there’s actually quite an easy solution to take care of such an issue:

xml.load(”xmlFile.xml?”+Math.random());

Essentially, Flash will think that the file is a different URL each time it loads the file and the psuedo parameter (’?+Math.random()’) will be ignored for the file request. Clever and effective.actionscript flash

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3 Responses to “Flash XML Caching Solution”

PJ Onori has a Weblog
August 21st, 2005 at 9:49 pm

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Moving out

I’ve made the decision that I will not be using this domain/host for much longer. This obviously means this blog will either have to be erased from existance or will need to move. While I get the feeling quite a…
Tim
October 24th, 2008 at 3:03 pm

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Actually, this does not solve the problem. At least not in AS2.
Tim
October 25th, 2008 at 5:10 am

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WAIT! I WAS WRONG! IT DOES WORK!… It will work when you upload it and test it in a browser, but it wasn’t working for me when I just published the SWF by itself. Same thing happened when my text fields were pixelated (not smooth) and then when I view the SWF through the browser, the fonts were smooth.

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