# Sharing experience: multiple movieClipLoader

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sharing-experience-multiple-moviecliploader/46772>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 27, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sharing-experience-multiple-moviecliploader/46772 "2004-03-27T21:14:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Voglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e57/32.png) [@Voglio](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Voglio)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sharing-experience-multiple-moviecliploader/46772/1 "2004-03-27T21:14:30Z")

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Hi!

It’s been a while since my last post…

I just want to share with you my experience with multiple movieClipLoader.

In one of the project that I’m currently working on, I wanted to make a website that would load external modules, made in Flash (of course).

**Concept**

The concept is the following :

- When a user load the main site, 8 modules are loaded.

- Each one of them are loaded with the function attachMovie by creating an instance of a movieClip and gives it the name of the module to load (in a parameter).

- Each instances load the right swf according to the name of the module passed in parameter using a movieClipLoader.

**Problem**

While working on my local computer, it seems that some random modules were unable to load on a free server ([50free.com](http://50free.com)). Sometimes it was 1 module that was unable to load, sometimes it was more… However if I made a refresh, everything was fine.

I first suspected the server being slow to respond due to the poor quality of the bandwidth of a free hosting service, so I changed to a faster server that I buyed.

Almost the same problem…

More modules were loading but still not all of them. The problem happened also at random time…

I checked my website on different computer and speed connection and noticed that on a really high-speed (like a cable modem that could download at 500k/s) the problem was not happening. But since not everyone (even I) have this kind of connection…

**The solution**

I finally found the problem. It seems that there is a maximum number of connection that your modem/computer/Flash/component can handle at the same time. I fixed the problem by putting my loading sequence in a function that requires an index that indicate precisely which module I want to load. I put the function in a setInterval and voila.

Here is the pseudo code:

[AS]  
var index = 0;

function loadModule(value){  
if(value == 0){  
//load module 0  
}  
if(value == 1){  
//load module 1  
}  
if(value == 2){  
//load module 2  
}

\_root.index++;

if(value \> [my maximum number of module]){  
clearInterval(loading\_sequence);  
\_root.index = 0;  
}  
}

loading\_sequence = setInterval(loadModule, “100”, index);

[/AS]

I’m not sure that my AS syntax is perfect since I wrote this example by heart… but you understand the principle.

I hope that this will help a few of you who are hardcore programmers who try to load a bunch of stuff at the same moment as I… 🙂