Name the loader-ID when using LoaderMax.parse()

[macguffin 28 Likes (Newbie)]

Hi I need to give my loaders created from parsing an array a specific ID based on the file name.

 

I have done it but wanted to check that there wasn't a simpler (built in) way of doing it, as even though it works it seems a little long winded.

 

So I create a LoaderMax with an onChildOpenHandler:

var subLoadqueue : LoaderMax = LoaderMax.parse(anArrayOfURLS, {onChildOpen:childOpenHandler});

 

The handler gets the file location and then extracts just the file name using makeLoaderID(event) returns this name and sets it as the event.target.name.

 

private function childOpenHandler(event : LoaderEvent) : void {

if (event.target.name.toLocaleLowerCase().indexOf('loader') != -1) {	
               //this stops the renaming of any non automatically named loaders
		event.target.name = makeLoaderID(event);
               }
		var $tempArray : Array = String(event.target).split(' ');
		IWGstore.loaderContent.push($tempArray);
	}

 

private function makeLoaderID(event : LoaderEvent) : String {
		var $tempArray : Array = String(event.target).split(' ');
		var loaderID : String = 'empty';
		if ($tempArray[2] != null) {
			var path : Array = $tempArray[2].split('/');
			loaderID = path[path.length - 1].substr(0, loaderID.lastIndexOf('.'));
			}
		return loaderID;
	}

 

So -FILELOCATION: (file:///e|/%7e%7ework/%7ecamelot/%7egames/newgames/asset_MC1.swf) gives me

loaderContent-ID: asset_MC1

which I can then use to retrieve content in the usual way (LoaderMax.getLoader('asset_MC1').rawContent)

 

Cheers

[Carl 9,066 Likes (Superhero)]

i don't know if there is a terribly easier way, but to make it a little simpler, instead of converting event.target to a string and trying to parse out the url you can grab the url directly:

 

event.target.url

 

 

I don't know if this is any better than re-naming the loaders, but you could also just store references to your loaders in your own associative array:

 

var  subLoaders:Array  = []

 

and then in onChildComplete (after pulling out the custom name) you could add the loader to the array:

 

subLoaders["parsedUrlID"] = event.target;

 

to access each loader you could use:

 

subLoaders_arr["parsedUrlID"].rawContent

 

instead of

 

LoaderMax.getLoader("parsedUrlID").rawContent

 

again I don't know if there is a huge advantage here other than not having to write LoaderMax.getLoader all the time OR if there is anything inherently wrong with renaming loaders (as you are doing).

[macguffin 28 Likes (Newbie)]

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

 

Cheers

Matt