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| Subject: | RE: FLASH: inconsistency in loading variables |
| From: | Charles Day |
| Date: | Wed, 17 May 2000 16:06:17 +0100 |
Brilliant!!!!!! 2) Works perfectly. This opens up possiblities for a very
cool network interface for our intranet using a Perl backend to feed the
data. Thanks again Colin.
Charles
-----Original Message-----
From: fritz [colin_moock
iceinc [dot] com (mailto:colin_moockiceinc [dot] com)]Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 10:07 AM
To: flasher
chinwag [dot] comSubject: Re: FLASH: inconsistency in loading variables
hi charles,
this is a known issue that is mostly true for ie (it's not really a flash
issue, but we end up dealing with it anyway).
there are two solutions:
1) if it's just a site for your own use or working in a controlled
environment, you can turn caching off completely in ie. that should force ie
to get the file every time you ask for it.
2) if it's a public site and you have no control over the users' browsers,
append a fake, but unique, query string to the end of your load variables
filename. the easiest way to get a unique query string is to use gettimer as
the value of a throwaway variable. eg:
"test.txt?dummyVar=" & gettimer
that will make ie think the url is a new file (or at least a new request to
a script) and cause the reloading of the content. note that you have to
change the [abc] button to an equal sign [=] to indicate that your file name
is an expression, not a string literal.
colin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Day" <chaday
symix [dot] com>To: <flasher
chinwag [dot] com>Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 8:59 AM
Subject: RE: FLASH: inconsistency in loading variables
> The problem is the browser remembers what was in the text file instead of
> reloading it. If I load test.txt, yes, I can change the values from
> test.txt throughout the movie, but if i call test.txt again, flash or the
> browser won't actually reload test.txt, just uses from memory what was in
> there, regardless if test.txt has new values and a new time stamp on it.
> This works fine if test.txt doesn't change, but is a problem for dynamic
> sites wanting to use changing values based on outside variables and user
> interaction. The really frustrating thing is that it DOES reload test.txt
> along with new values when you're not going through a webserver.
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Ward [phil-w
crescent-graphics [dot] co [dot] uk (mailto:phil-wcrescent-graphics [dot] co [dot] uk)]> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 8:04 PM
> To: flasher
chinwag [dot] com> Subject: Re: FLASH: inconsistency in loading variables
>
>
> Have you got an actionscript which checks to make sure the variables are
> loaded before the movie proceeds? otherwise the text variables won't be
> loaded in time for the call on the data. This could explain why it works
> fine locally and not remote as your HD can load the text quicker than the
> server.
>
> I had a similar problem and used the method below...if anyone can see
> errors in the code below please feel free to revise as I am writing this
> from memory.
>
> Try this..
>
> Frame 1
> Load Variables
> ("yourtextfile.txt","/yourEmptymcInstanceName", vars=POST)
>
> There is also your empty mc
>
> Frame 2
> Label loading
> If "/yourEmptymcInstanceName:yourlastTextFieldName ne "")
> Go to and Stop ("done")
> End If
>
> Frame 3
> Go to and Play ("loading")
>
> Frame 4 or whatever is the first frame in your main content
> Label done
>
> HTH
>
> Regards
>
> Phil Ward
> Crescent Graphics
>
> phil-w
crescent-graphics [dot] co [dot] uk> www.crescent-graphics.co.uk
> New Media <> Internet <> Visuals
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Anders Ramsay <anders
mediafarm [dot] com>> To: <flasher
chinwag [dot] com>> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 3:50 PM
> Subject: FLASH: inconsistency in loading variables
>
>
> > There have been a range of mailings re. issues surrounding loading
> > variables from an external source on this list, but I didn't see
> > anything that could solve the problem I currently am the having:
> >
> > BACKGROUND
> > I am using a flash movie for global site navigation. The site
> > divides into 12 major sections, and the global navigation menu should
> > reflect which section the user is in by highlighting that part of the
> > menu. Since I only want to use one movie for all 12 sections (since
> > the browser will cache it after the first time it is loaded), I am
> > using an external variable to set the state of the movie depending on
> > which page it is loaded into.
> >
> >
> > THE PROBLEM
> > While this works flawlessly when I test it locally, it works only
> > about 70% of the time when I test it over the web.
> >
> >
> > HOW I AM LOADING THE EXTERNAL VARIABLE
> > I have a text file in the same directory as the given html file. In
> > the second frame of the movie, I use the Load Movie action set to
> > 'Load variables into location' with target set to a movie clip I use
> > for variables and subroutines (this movie clip resides on all frames
> > in the top level movie). Then, two frames later, I tell the top
> > level movie to go to the frame label of the variable in that
> > directory, e.g. if the file says 'default=home' my script would say
> > 'go to location(default)'
> >
> > the text file itself contains *only* (no invisible characters):
> > 'default=someVariable'
> >
> >
> > OPTIONS I HAVE TRIED
> > 1. Using FS Command - while ridiculously complicated in the Flash
> > environment, I would've gone with this, except for that FS Command
> > does not work in IE for the Mac - if this is incorrect, please let me
> > know.
> >
> > 2. Setting the variable directly in the SRC tag for the player, eg:
> > SRC="myMovie.fla?default=someVariable" - but I have exactly the same
> > problems with this approach.
> >
> > 3. Loading a movie containing my variable that is unique for each
> > page, then loading the navigation movie into that movie - this seems
> > to work ok, except that certain browsers, after having cached the
> > movie, did not properly display them in that only the initial movie
> > would load but the global navigation movie did not (about 50% of the
> > time).
> >
> >
> > SEE IT
> > go to www.mixedgreens.com and click on 'Mixed Greens' - the flash
> > movie in question are the row of dots at the top (not the 'Site Map'
> > - which seems to work fine)
> >
> > (NOTE: Because of this problem, I have built a failsafe into the
> > movie - if it does not find a text file, it simply displays the
> > navigation with *all* sections set to default.)
> >
> > Any ideas in how to solve this problem would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thnx.
> >
> >
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