# Disable listeners while XML being loaded

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disable-listeners-while-xml-being-loaded/253970>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 6, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disable-listeners-while-xml-being-loaded/253970 "2008-03-06T22:00:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![paulcybulski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90db22/32.png) [@paulcybulski](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/paulcybulski)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disable-listeners-while-xml-being-loaded/253970/1 "2008-03-06T22:00:15Z")

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I am implementing several listeners in my application, but they seem to slow my XML load function significantly…I would like to disable my listeners until the load is completed…how would I go about doing this?