Tween Stalling

[rob day]

I have a function on my main timeline that includes a few tweens, everything runs fine when I test in Flash or run the swf from my desktop. When I run the .swf from a browser one of the tweens inexplicably stalls halfway through. Any general reasons why this might happen?

[Damon Edwards]

Make sure its not a weak reference to the tween.

var myTween:Tween;

function something(){
myTween = new Tween(blahblah);
}

would not be weak.

function something(){
var myTween:Tween = new Tween(blahblah);
}

would be weak. Once the function has run, the reference to myTween can be GC since there is no base reference.

[rob day]

Thanks, I was writing the tween variable outside of the function as you suggested.

As I mentioned it was only happening inside of a browser, so i thought it might be a memory issue—I'm scaling an image 600%. But then I tried it with no image and got the same stalling. I've managed to solve the problem by running the tween once outside of the function, before I call it, with the same beginning and ending scale so nothing moves. Don't know if that will come back to haunt me, but so far I can't break it.

[Damon Edwards]

I suppose its getting GCd when you're scaling that image. Must be eating a lot of mem.

[rob day]

I am worried about memory with this. Would the amount of scaling be an issue? Would it help if the scaling could be lowered to something like 400%? I'm also scaling a movie clip with jpegs inside and was wondering if I would be better off trying to use the bitmap class, which I'm finding a bit intimidating.