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Can AS3 Workers Manipulate the Stage?

AS3 Worker Documentation states:

"The primordial worker is the worker in which the initial swf is running. This worker controls the rendering to the screen."

Does this mean that actionscript that renders to the screen in a worker will be passed to the primordial worker?

Or can I not render the screen in a worker?

Basically, my flash application loads a child SWF that executes to the screen while the main SWF continues running in the background, doing some processing.

Am I able to run the child SWF as a worker, and therefore on a second thread?

Solution

  • I found the answer in similar threads: Can ActionScript Workers be used to play / generate Sounds in a separate thread?

    Can there be multiple rendering worker threads

    I guess this can be marked as duplicate. Thanks for reading everyone!

    The child SWF won't work running as a worker.