AS3 Loader.content Access to Partially Loaded Content

Question

I have a main swf that loads an external swf. The external
swf is a fairly large video embeded on the timeline.

Ive got my Loader all setup correctly, handling PROGRESS,
COMPLETE and INIT events all fine.

What id like to do (which i could do in AS2 very easily) is
start the playing and accessing variables in the loaded swf before
it finishes loading. If i do these things when the video swf is
loaded completely, everything works fine.

Any attempt to access Loader.content or the container clip
ive placed Loader.content in, BEFORE its finished loading (when it
reachs, lets say, 20%), i get error:

#2099 The loading object is not sufficiently loaded to
provide this information.

Anyone have any ideas on how it could be possible to start
messing with loaded SWF content before all of its frames are
loaded? Thanks in advance for lookin over my post!!

ricky grows · Answer

Found an answer.So the trick is the INIT event fired by theLoader.contentLoaderInfo class.From what i've read, the INIT event fires as soon as you areable to start manipulating the loaded swf. In my example above,this event fires before the video is even 1% loaded; and oncefired, i have access to it inside my init handler via the eventargument passed by INIT (i.e. event.target.content).A side-note that im not to clear on...INIT is supposed tofire when all the classes in the sub-swf are loaded andavailable...well what happens if you import a package on the lastframe of a 4000 frame movie? Seems to me you'd still have to wait.anyway, short of it...INIT fires when you can start using themovie...regardless of whether its loaded or not.

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