Adobe AIR loading problem

Question

I have a really annoying intermittent issue when loading a series of assets using the Loader class in AIR 1.5.

I am creating four instances of a slideshow that I written, and 9/10 times it works but every now and then one or two of the slideshows fail and I found that it just stops loading images when that happens, maybe loads half of them, there are no runtime errors reported even though I use try and catch.

All the images are loaded sequentially but the slideshows are in parallel, I am thinking maybe this is the problem? Has anyone had issues with parallel loading? Should you always load sequentially even in AIR?

Answer 1

Yes, definitely try to avoid parallel loading, unless you have control over how many concurrent threads can run. So use a sequential load manager and maybe let it use multiple loading threads to work through the sequence, but not more than 2-3.

I think the reason why it's intermittent is because of speed variation, if it's fast enough you get everything loaded, but as soon as something is a bit slower you get failed loads.