Re: FLASH: FLASH BUG?!

[Kalin Mintchev]

ok there it goes.


first many thanks to Helen to take the time to actualy ask all those

questions - including the one about the breakfast; i haven't got one yet -

have to solve this first....


it's a flash form:


 1. have a txt field named "go"  

  (have action "stop" in an action layer in frame 1)

 2. have a bttn with the

acction: On (Release)


      Get URL ("moo.html", window="left", vars=GET)


      Go to and Play (2) On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Helen Triolo wrote:


End On 

moo.html is a page that's getting loaded in a "hidden frame" in the

browser; i tryed something like:

Load Variables ("moo.txt", 0, vars=POST)

but it didn't work for me.

so i'm using that "hidden page" that has a script that performs the search

based on the variables that it gets from the txt field "go" 

 3.have the results in the moo.html and a command to write those  into a

file called moo.txt - scince flash can't get variables from an htm page -

tryed that too. moo.txt looks like this now:


in=[result_of_search]


 4. the bttn gos to frame 2 and "plays" the rest of the movie.

 5. have a second txt field called "in" where the incoming variables

should be displayd

 6. in frame five i have:

 Load Variables ("moo.txt", 0)

everything is in the same directory - should work, right?


the result of the search might be and it usualy is different for every

search - that's the point.

the web catalog replaces the data in the txt file for every search

flash has to read it only once (not periodicly)

WC doesn't do anything to the variables - just stores them into the .txt

(moo.txt) file.

didn't have breakfast.


 6. in the last frame - #10 - i have action "stop" in the action layer.




that's all


again - IT WORKS FOR 30MIN then it stops working.

why? what do i do wrong?


 

thanks Helen


> 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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