Live view from java to flex - blinking image

Question

i am trying to simulate a live view using a canon Camera.
I am interacting with the cam using the CanonSDK, i get an image every a short period in order to simulate a video frame by frame. This works fine, i am using java to do the backend and send the images trough BlazeDS to flex.
The problem is not getting the image, the problem is that when i load a new image using something like:
image.source=my_new_image;
the new image is loaded but it produces a short white blink and it ruins the video...So i would like to know if there is a way to use channels of streaming or some way to pass the set of images in live view to flex and show them in the interface of flex from java.
Thank you very much!
Agustina

Answer 1

I have this same problem in an SWF that I have an external image loading into. In another SWF, I don't have this problem. In one instance, the image is at the start of the movie clip and at the other it's on the last frame of the movie clip. My only suggestion would be to load as many of the images as you can off-screen and then put listeners on the images to know they are loaded before you show them. You can do that by:
this.addElement(image);
image.addEventListener(FlexEvent.UPDATE_COMPLETE, imageLoaded);
private function imageLoaded(event:Event):void{
//image is loaded...