[flashpro] image caching

Timo Stamm t.stamm at macnews.de
Wed Aug 17 04:24:18 EDT 2005


Micah Freedman wrote:
> Hi Y'all,
> 
> In a related question to my previous post, can anyone tell me about  how 
> caching of loaded images works?

If an image with the requested name is found in the cache, return it.

If no image with the requested name is found in the cache, load it, save 
it in the cache, return it.



> If I want to use the same loaded  image 
> in multiple places within a movie, 

This is not possible.


what's the best way to  handle the
> downloading/preloading issues?

What are these issues?



> duplicateMovieClip? 

Does not work with loaded movieclips.


Does it  just "know"
> that it's already downloaded that image when you ask for  it again if 
> the url is the same?

What do you mean with "it"?



Timo


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