Re: Re: FLASH: CGI removes Flash File

[mbain]

let the CGI either url encode the output or output it in a status=ok format

I dont know what language you use for the CGI, but I think the problem is there.

The command you use there seem to PRINT TO SCREEN. I could tell you how to do

this is ASP ....but not in perl or whatever it is you are using there.


Your logic is perfectly logical and yes, your looping idea and sending variable

back to flash is perfectly correct...but ...I think that PRINT CONTECT TYPE

THING is the problem...it seems like the way you outpuk the variable and its

value there is to ythe screen instead of to the STDOUT (ok dont wanna confuse

anyone here now) or as URL encoded ....


erm....itss difficult to explain these thingsa in e-mail ...but i hope this

helps


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Sven Haiges <

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> on 14/01/2000 11:32:14 AM


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I am doing so.


But: I have a Flash File with an Form. Magazine members can input data

which is sent to a cgi and this cgi updates an text file. The text file is used

for another movie.


I want the cgi to send a "ok" back to the first flash movie, where one of

your team members has entered date to show a "ok, text file updated"

message. I would like to do a loop until the variable "ok" is set to "true" and

then move the movie to the "ok, text file updated" section.


But, as stated, the cgi output displays a new page but i want this output

to stay in the flash file and then work with the variable (ok) in this file.


thanx,

sven



> I'm no expert when it comes to CGI, but couldn't you tell the cgi to

> write

> to a text file, and then have the flash movie display the written text

> results? There has been a flash/asp example of this floating around this

> list....

>

> -dk-

> ----- Original Message -----

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From: "Sven Haiges" <flavorgmx [dot] net>

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To: <flasherchinwag [dot] com>

> Sent: January 14, 2000 1:01 AM

> Subject: FLASH: CGI removes Flash File

>

>

> > Hi there!

> >

> > I need to send form data to cgi which then, after processing the data,

> > shall send a variable back to the flash movie. I want to use this to

> tell

> the

> > Flash Movie that everything is OK or not.

> >

> > The Problem is, that the returning variables are printed directly to

> the

> > screen, that means the html with my flash file is being removed.

> >

> > In the CGI, I am printing:

> >

> > ---

> > print "content-type: text/html\n\n";

> > print "ok=true"

> > ---

> >

> > Does anyone have a piece of CGI code that moves the variables to the

> > flash? Or maybe it is a Flash Problem - I am using Load Variables,

> Level 0

> and

> > sending the variables of the form via "GET" (I am writing the

> variables

> > directly to a txt file which is then loaded of another flash movie)

> >

> > Thanx!

> > SVEN

> >

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