Trying To Understand Display List In AS3

I have FLA 01. I create a loader in FLA 01. I use the loader
to load SWF 02 and when the load is complete add SWF 02 to the
stage and place it in a movie clip. So far, so good.
SWF 02 is a rather complicated file. It dynamically creates
in ActionScript several dozen small movieclips that are all added
to the stage (all done in ActionScript).
I have a button on FLA 01 to replace SWF 02 with SWF 03. This
works fine, but the movieclips that SWF 02 added to the stage still
remain even after SWF 03 replaces SWF 02. This confuses me. I would
think that when I replace SWF 02 with SWF 03, all aspects of SWF 02
would be gone, but it doesn't seem to replace any objects that SWF
02 added to the "stage." I appear to be successfully replacing SWF
02 with SWF 03, EXCEPT for any objects SWF 02 added to the stage.
So, how would I also remove those?
I am guessing that when SWF 02 uses ActionScript to
dynamically add movieclips to the "stage" they are not really a
part of SWF 02?
So, basically I'm trying to figure out how that works. If I
have one Flash file and l load another SWF into it is there always
only ONE stage? I thought each SWF file had its own stage and so
when SWF 02 was adding items to the Stage they were still a part of
SWF 02 and would go away when SWF 02 was replaced. Thanks for any
insight and clarification.

So, I have discovered this. If I place the movieclips in SWF
02 on the actual timeline, in a layer, instead of adding them
dynamically to "the stage" with AS, THEN they are removed when the
rest of the swf is removed.
So, question 1. If I load SWF 02 into SWF 01 and use AS to
dynamically place the movieclips on "the stage" using
stage.addChild it places them on the stage of the entire project,
correct? What AS would I use to accomplish the same thing as I have
now done manually, that is place them on the "stage" of SWF 02, NOT
on the stage of the entire project?
Question 2. If I use my loader to load a SWF 02 into SWF 01
and then use it again to load SWF 03 are you saying that SWF 02
hasn't really been removed? Is it still there, just hiding under
SWF 03?
Thank you very much for your continued help!

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<pre>
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1) Btrfs determines which snapshot maintains a logical copy and physically copies the file to the appropriate snapshot before it is modified.
a) Does it copy the complete file or work on the block level?
b) What happens if the file is very large, e.g. 100 GB and there is not enough space on disk to copy the file to the snapshot directory?
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I guess calling it "logical copy" was a bad choice. Would calling the initial snapshot a "hard link of a file system" be more appropriate?
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user     0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s
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!http://www.geoffkaiser.com/various/export.jpg!
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Soooo, apparently that's it; choosing the presets in the bottom half net you an extra display feature (that can be toggled on or off) when using QuickTime Player 7.1 or higher. Of course there's nothing in the QT Export dialog to tell you this. But Martin I appreciate your efforts in investigating the outputs of each, as it led me to the answer.

I'm trying to export a list to Excel and I'm getting this error: "unable to download owssvr.dll"

Hi,
Help, please.
I’m trying to export a list to Excel and I’m getting this error: "unable to download owssvr.dll"
Thanks in advanced.

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you got the error "unable to download owssvr.dll" when exporting a list to Excel.
owssvr.dll is the module given by Microsoft to read the data from SharePoint Lists using remote procedure call.
You can find the OWSSVR.DLL in SharePoint 2010 Server Physical Path: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\ISAPI.
Please check whether it exists in SharePoint 2010 Server Physical Path.
Please check whether you export a list to Excel correctly.
Generally, the issue is caused by the brower. Please reset the IE to check whether it works.
In addition, you can repair the Office to check whether it works.
Here is a similar thread for your reference:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/5f471d53-e980-4acc-a6cb-7c8722571ec0/problem-with-export-to-spreadsheet?forum=sharepointgenerallegacy
More information:
SharePoint RPC Protocols Examples Using OWSSVR.DLL
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I’ve got a movieclip called “rotatorProxy” that spans the entire timeline. I’ve got nav buttons that jump to various frames on that timeline. I need to get the display depth of rotatorProxy each time the nav buttons move the playhead. The AS3 code is easy enough:
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my problem is where to put it. If I put this code in any script that executes in the target frame, it works, but only if I hit the nav buttons slowly. If I bang on a single nav button rapidly, getChildByName("rotatorProxy”) can return null. I don’t know much about how the display list works but I assume the display list is rebuilt after every jump and the frame scripts are executing asynchronously, so it’s possible my getChildByName call is executed before the display list is complete. Is there an event or some other handle that would allow me to call my code before the frame is rendered but after the display list is complete?

Wow, thanks for the fast response...
“if rotatorProxy exists in all frames, it should never return null.”
That’s what I thought, but not what I’m seeing, rapidly jumping around on the timeline seems to confuse the player and it temporarily looses track of rotatorProxy.
You can sort of see it in action here: http://www.appliedcd.com/newACT/act.html
The zIndex is used to establish the depth of the rotating screens which have been added to the display list via AS. If you bang on the nav buttons quickly you’ll see the stacking order screw up, if you had been in the development environment you’d see the null error thrown.
I’ll see if I can use the render event to sort this out. I know testing in the frame after the jump will work, but it’s cleaner if I can establish the proper stacking order before the first jump frame is rendered.

I am trying to understand if cloud supports SOA components deployment , if so how can we achieve it.

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