A few suggestions:

* Add a method to prioritize or move objects up the que, this is a good thing to have when you have a que working in the background and you suddenly need to display certain elements as soon as possible.

* Add a method to delete objects from the que.

Thanks for sharing,

Nick


var _oLoader:QueueLoader = new QueueLoader(true, addedDefinitions);


But feel free to use it however you want:) Might be a few days before I can add these updates

As far as loading XML and CSS first, I agree and do the same, but… I hate having to divide the steps for a total progress. That is the beauty of QueueLoader. Regardless of a site's structure, XML and CSS still feel like very good candidates for QueueLoader items.

I went ahead and tried to see how hard it might be to add XML, and it was pretty straight forward.

The only hitch I ran into was if the xml was mistyped the queue would just stop loading. That leads me into my next suggestion which would be a backup plan for failed loads.

I switch a private method to public and bypassed the issue with:

In queueloader.fla|onItemError() added:
_oLoader.loadNextItem();

Then I tried adding more images than were available. Increasing the number from 7 to 12 reported the Queue Progress as 62% when complete. I can see a scenario where if loading a gallery of images, and if one fails, I don't want the user to know.

It might be nice get an option to output % of the total loaded vs. % of successful loads.

Anyway, here is some quick code I added to include XML;

In queueloader.fla|loadImages() added:

_oLoader.addItem( prefix("") + "flashassets/xml/site.xml", new XML(), {title:"XML!!" });

In QueueLoader.as|loadNextItem() added:

case FILE_XML:
trace("External XML");
_URLLoader = new URLLoader();
_URLLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
_URLLoader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, ioErrorHandler);
_URLLoader.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, progressHandler);
_URLLoader.load(request);
break;

In QueueLoader.as|completeHandler() added:

if ( _currType == FILE_XML )
{
currItem.targ = new XML(event.target.data);
}
else if(_currType != FILE_AUDIO)
{
}

In queueloader.fla|onItemInit() added:

if ( event.filetype == QueueLoader.FILE_XML )
{
var xml = event.targ;
trace( "xml: \n" + xml )
}

In queueloader.fla|onItemError() added:
_oLoader.loadNextItem();

I can very easily add it in there, but if you wanted to store assets in an XML to be loaded with QueueLoader you would need to run a seperate QueueLoader (with the way it's set up now), which might add extra over head when you can use a simple XML loader.

I actually made a post with the source for these files here.

Thanks!

And I promise next on my list is a posting on GO

D

- m