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I'm building a Flash-based site that uses a lot of data read in from .txt files. The .swf's should draw performance graphs etc, and the data is updated on a a daily basis. The data itself comes from SQL, and comes in as a string that FlashPlayer converts into arrays for ease of plotting and scripting. The scripts are pretty complex, 200 lines or so.
The difficulty I'm having is that locally my .swf's run just dandy, lookin real good, but as soon as I upload them to the server, they stop running: when I click a link for a particular graph, the .swf doesn't read all the data in, and hence doesn't know how to draw the appropriate graph. It's also possible that the .swf doesn't even read in all of the script, but I can't tell. HOWEVER when I click the link a SECOND time, the graphs come up fine.
Now, I've tried to work around this by adding an 'allloaded' variable at the end of the .txt files, so that FlashPlayer should return to the first frame of the .swf unless 'allloaded' == true, and reload the .txt data. If 'allloaded'==true then Flash should go ahead and do its thing, but not otherwise...BUT This does not @&*£ing work either; the .swf tries to retrieve the .txt file a few times, then times out, and gives me a silly blank screen, standing around,shuffling its feet and looking embarrassed but not doing what I'm asking it to do!
So, any suggestions? I found a post from the year 2000 on Google, but the poster's email address had changed. This is turning into some kind of nightmare.
Then the next issue I'm gonna have to tackle is to prevent the .txt files from caching once FlashPlayer consents to read the files. I think I know how to do that though, using a random number at the end of the loadVariables command. But if I can't get Flash to read in the data in the first place, then this is all speculation!
Please help. I'm thinking of going into carpentry soon; technology is giving me allergy.
Thanks
Lassi
FlashKit > Flash Help > Flash ActionScript
Posted on: 12-19-2001, 09:28 AM
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