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Subject:	Re: FLASH: FLASH BUG?!
From:	Helen Triolo
Date:	Wed, 26 Jul 2000 20:38:46 +0100

Kalin,

How is Flash getting info from the text file? Does Web Catalog replace
the content (or does it append?) and then Flash reads it in
periodically? What triggers Flash to read it? Is it reading one
variable or many? Does it check for the variables being loaded before
it tries to do something with them? (and just for completeness, what
did you have for breakfast this morning?) Maybe if you described the
process and the variables, we could think about what might be wrong.
Hard to know why it would stop after 30 minutes without knowing what's
going on in that 30 minutes.

Helen
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Kalin Mintchev wrote:
>
> thanks again for the reply,
> well i do know how to use "other scripting langauges", that's way i'm
> using WebCatalog now. like i wrote it does the same like the other ones
> and is a lot easer and faster to write, you don't need to spend hours
> debuging.
> i don't think i reach the 200,000 action limit eather.
> and i don't think it is a WebCatalog issue. the thing does it's job - it
> writes the .txt file that suposed to - every single search.
> i thiink is a flash issue. somehow...
> lets say i personaly write the .txt file - not WebCatalog - every time in
> the same directory where the movie and the html file that's contaning the
> flash movie are located.
> how can i be sure that the movie's not going to stop to "load the
> variables" after certain time?
>
> > > i'm not using eather ASP or cgi's. it's a thing called WebCatalog.
> > > is as fast as perl and is a lot faster to write (and easer too)
> > > BUT, what difference does it make what is the middlewafe?
> > > the middle where does it's job. it writs the .txt file on the fly and
> > > flash reads it FOR 30 MIN. or so... it actualy works for a while.
> > > my problem is: why it stops? the .txt file is still beeing updated
> > > with every search - why it doesn't get uploaded?

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