actionscript 3 synchronous loader - actionscript-3

Question

I have typical situation where big loop is loading lots of images and its done asynchronous which make browser to frees during loading and I want to make it synchronous but having big trouble doing it. I found this class synchronous loader and it work great but you cant add mouse event listener to loader. Here is sample code:
for (var i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
item = items[i];
if(item.layer>1){
ld:Loader = new Loader();
ld.load(new URLRequest(item.url));
ld.rotation = item.rotation;
ld.x = item.x ;
ld.y = item.y;
ld.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadComplete);
ld.scaleX = item.scaleX;
ld.scaleY = item.scaleY;
ld.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, select);
layers_arr[item.layer].addChild(ld);
}
}
Any idea how this can be done?

Answer 1

like arieljake says, here is a little example on how to use it:
package
{
import com.greensock.TweenLite;
import com.greensock.events.LoaderEvent;
import com.greensock.loading.ImageLoader;
import com.greensock.loading.LoaderMax;
import com.greensock.loading.MP3Loader;
import com.greensock.loading.SWFLoader;
import com.greensock.loading.XMLLoader;
import com.greensock.loading.display.ContentDisplay;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.display.StageAlign;
import flash.display.StageScaleMode;
import flash.events.Event;
public class Main extends Sprite
{
public var itemUrl:String;
public var queue:LoaderMax = new LoaderMax({name:"mainQueue", onProgress:progressHandler, onComplete:completeHandler, onError:errorHandler});
public function Main()
{
stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
queue.maxConnections = 1; //Checks how much items that can be loaded at the same time
queue.append( new ImageLoader("http://www.myurl.com/myimage.jpg", {name:"photo1", estimatedBytes:2400, container:this, alpha:0,scaleMode:"proportionalInside"}) );
queue.append( new ImageLoader("http://www.myotherurl.com/awesomeimage.jpg", {name:"photo2", estimatedBytes:2400, container:this, alpha:0, scaleMode:"proportionalInside"}) );
queue.addEventListener(LoaderEvent.CHILD_COMPLETE, childCompleteHandler); //checks when a child has completed to load
queue.addEventListener(LoaderEvent.CHILD_PROGRESS, childProgressHandler); //checks the child progress
//prioritize the loader named "photo1"
LoaderMax.prioritize("photo1"); //same as LoaderMax.getLoader("photo1").prioritize();
//start loading
queue.load();
}
protected function childProgressHandler(event:LoaderEvent):void
{
var procent:Number = Math.floor(event.target.progress*100);
var targetName:String = event.target.name;
trace(procent+'% loaded of item: '+targetName);
}
protected function childCompleteHandler(event:LoaderEvent):void
{
var targetName:String = event.target.name;
trace(targetName+' is loaded!');
}
private function completeHandler(event:LoaderEvent):void {
var objects:Array = event.currentTarget.content;
for(var i:uint=0; i < objects.length; i++)
{
var image:ContentDisplay = LoaderMax.getContent(objects[i].name);
TweenLite.to(image, 1, {alpha:1, y:100});
}
trace(event.target + " is complete!");
}
private function errorHandler(event:LoaderEvent):void {
trace("error occured with " + event.target + ": " + event.text);
}
}
}

Answer 2

Check this out: http://www.greensock.com/loadermax/
Let's you specify max number of simultaneous loaders