Flash component loads slowly or renders slowly

Question

Hi,
Does anyone have a problem with flash 8 components loading
very slowly. I have a mainmovie page that loads other .swf files
into a movieclip. The sub movie has got flash 8 components,
basically, 4 buttons, 4 datefields, one combo box, one menu bar and
one datagrid. When i load the sub movie into the mainmovie, the
components flashes for a second and then shows the components. I
use a moviecliploader as well to hide the loaded movie and only
after it's loaded then show the loaded movie, still the components
flash.
Any ideas as i have been trying to solve this for about 5
hours now. Any help much appreciated.
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi clbeech,
Thanks for replying. Nope, i am not using
getNextHighestDepth() anywhere in my classes or on the timeline.
What i have done is use an empty movieclip, named it dropzone, and
when a menu item is clicked, an external movie loads into that
movieclip. The external movie is loaded using the moviecliploader
class.
Here's the code from the class that might possibly help...
//The helpful Delegate for UI component event listeners
import mx.utils.Delegate;
class loadCenterApps extends MovieClip
public var menubarObject : Object;
private var mclListener : Object;
private var menu;
private var imageLoader : MovieClipLoader;
public var root : MovieClip
// constructor function
public function loadCenterApps (root : MovieClip)
this.root = root;
mclListener = new Object ();
imageLoader = new MovieClipLoader ();
mclListener.onLoadProgress = Delegate.create (this,
this.onMclListenerProgress);
mclListener.onLoadInit = Delegate.create (this,
this.onMclListenerInit);
imageLoader.addListener (mclListener);
init (root.my_mb);
private function init (menubarObject)
root.my_mb = menubarObject;
menu = root.my_mb.addMenu ("File");
menu.addMenuItem (
label : "Save", data : "saveReport.swf"
menu.addMenuItem (
label : "Cancelled", data : "cancellationReport.swf"
menu.addMenuItem (
label : "Other Details", data : "otherReport.swf"
menu = root.my_mb.addMenu ("User Management");
menu.addMenuItem (
label : "Add, Delete and Change Password", data :
"addUser.swf"
root.my_mb.addEventListener ('change', Delegate.create
(this, menuListener));
public function menuListener (evt_obj : Object)
destroy ();
var someRandom = getTimer () + random (1000000000);
//var toLoadClip = evt_obj.menuItem.attributes.data + "?=" +
someRandom;
var toLoadClip = evt_obj.menuItem.attributes.data;
imageLoader.loadClip (toLoadClip, root.dropzone);
public function onMclListenerProgress (target : MovieClip,
bytesLoaded : Number, bytesTotal : Number) : Void
if(bytesLoaded >= bytesTotal) {
target._visible = true;
else root.dropzone._visible = false;
public function onMclListenerInit (target : MovieClip) :
Void
target._visible = true;
public function destroy () : Void
imageLoader.unloadClip (root.dropzone);
/////////////////////////////////