Performance problem (with onEnterFrame?)

nurg1e wrote:

> Hi.
> I'm working on a pretty big product presentation in flash. The presentation is
> "doable" with like no AS at all, but the timeline(s) would be huge and a
> nightmare to work with, therefore I like to do as much as possible with AS.
>
> My problem is that my MC gives me 50-90% cpu-load on a 1,6Ghz P4 which results
> in like 1fps, in all other aspects everything works like intended.
> My big question is "Can I lower this load by doing everything (or parts of it)
> without AS? or is my code some where very bad written?"
>
> My suspicions goes to my _root.onEnterFrame=function(){} where everything
> happens (mostly thou function calls). Let me explain the movies structure:
> I have 3 subsections (the first containing 5 steps) that is repeated 5 times
> so the loop looks something like this ( on _root on the first (and only) frame:
>
> step = subSet=bigSet=0;
> onEnterFrame = function () {
> if( bigSet < 6 ) {
> if (subSet == 0) {
> if (isFirstStepInSubSet) {
> doFirstStepInSubSet(0);
> step++;
> } else if (isNotFirstAndNotLastStepInSubSet) {
> doNotFirstAndNotLastStepInSubSet(step);
> step++;
> } else if (isLastStepInSubSet) {
> doLastStepInSubSet(lastStep);
> step = 0;
> subSet++;
> }
> } else if (subSet == 1) {
> doFadeOfSubSet(subSet);
> doSubSet(subSet);
> subSet++;
> } else if (activeSubSet == 2) {
> doFadeOfSubSet(subSet);
> doSubSet(subSet);
> subSet = 0;
> bigSet++;
> }
> }
> };
> Keep in mind that this is just an example code to explain the thinking.
>
> The real code (for those of you that haven't fled away yet ) is like this:
> Please download it http://www.liljengrens.se/vexplain.rar!
>
> Thanks for any thoughts at all!

instead use setInterval. It's better on the performance.

-Richard