Flash :: Variables Not Reloading. HELP

Reloading Variables Without Reloading Movie
After speding several hours on this and countless other boards, I've yet to find a solution that works for me. It's a common enough question I suppose.

I'm creating something of a one way message system. On comptuer I'm using an SWF to (succesfully) send data and store it in a database using Cold Fusion and an SQL db. On that side, all is good.

On a seperate machine, I'm trying to place an IM type window that will continually call to a ColdFusion page that pulls from the previously mentioned DB. The very first time the SWF is loaded, all is good, however I have yet to find a succesful way of essentially re-running the cold fusion page to pull new information. Looping through the animation seems to do nothing but load previous information, even thogh the database has changed.

Frame 2 of my SWF uses loadVariablesNum to load the variables from a CF page directly into root. Frame 1 of the SWF clears the variable prior to it loading again so that they are not duplicated.

I don't have a problem with setting a timed resoponse within reason, but it seems regardless what I do, the page continually caches the results. How can I force the SWF to load fresh variables from a ColdFusion page that has already been run once?

Reloading Variables On The Fly
I am loading variables from a text file. It works fine when i have the loading code in the movie and the textfield variables set. I want to be able to press a button to set the textfield variables while the movie is playing. I am using this code:

Code:
datetxt.variable=date
datetxt is the textfield instance name and date is the variable. This should work fine except when i press the button the variables are being set on the text fields but they are not loading into the text fields. Does anyone know what i mean or is there any way to refresh the textfields so that they load the variables?

Reloading Variables From A Txt File...
I can't get my variables to update properly...
they do update on the txt file but not in my swf...
I have to close IE and open a new window in order to see the changes.

here is the link...

http://www.doxmedia.com/mm_editor.html

thanks JP...

Reloading/flushing Variables
Hello,

I am wondering how one would flush variables in a movie. I have a scene where I import data, set them into variables and then display them in dynamic text. I then have a button that changes it to a different set of import data. So I am trying to have the output text seamlessly change its values with the click of a button.

I can get it to work if i separate out the frames. Meaning I have frame 1 load the variable, and frame two display the data. The button loads frame 1 with a different value and then frame 2 picks up the new value again. The problem is that when I click the button, there is that 1 frame gap where the text field isn't displayed. Is there a way to do this in code?

If I can elaborate more or clarify more, please don't hesitate to ask. Thank you for your time.

Steve

Reloading Flash With Other Variables?
Hi is there any ways to reload my flash with other variables, lets say i'm running a flash which is called myFlash.swf?id=1&step=1

If I then from the same flash want to call myFlash.swf?id=1&step=2

is that possible?

I have a movieclip which loads some jpgs and I want to only show 10 of them at a time? so in my frame 5 I load the jpgs and shows step=1 to stepto=10 (values I define in the first frame of my movie). Now I thought I could just make a button which onrelease changed step=11 and stepto=20, and then gotoAndPlay(4) which then reached frame 5 and the images 11 to 20 was shown, but that doesnt work? any help would be highly appreciated :-)

Mads

Reloading Variables From Database
I have a flash header that receives random text from a database through a PHP page. I'm using the loadVariables function to bring in the first random text and that works fine. I then have a button that should access the PHP again and retrieve another random text set from the database (once again using the loadVariables function).

Whenever I use the loadVariables function on the button to renew the random text, it brings up the same text over and over again. When I use loadVariablesNum it works, but opens up a blank page with the output of the variables (getURL also works, opening up a blank page).

Is there a way for me to use the loadVariablesNum without having the page popup with the variables printed out? Or better yet, is there a way to just use the loadVariables to renew the info?

Cheers!

Reloading When Parsing Variables.
I've got a fairly large flash movie that has a couple of variables being sent to it via a querystring. This page needs to be reloaded each mouse click and sends new variables to the movie, my problem is that each time it refrshes due to the different values of the variables the whole movie has to be reloaded even though nothing but 2 words are being altered. Is there anyway round this, the flash movie itself will never change.

Thanks

Variables Aren't Reloading?
I have one flash page with a list of variables. They load fine. But when I hit my sort button, which calls another Coldfusion page the varibales do not change.

Is there a way to refresh or reload the same page with different vaiables?

Thank you,

Matty

Reloading Movieclip As Variables Change.
Okay, i am working on a flash website and i have for the first time made everything dynamically loading from outside of the SWF to reduce the file size. I have a text file which is dynamically loaded into a text box, which i have defined in a variable called "textfile". I want to reload the movieclip on the click of a button and at the same time change the variable for the text file to be opened into the text box. so as i click content, the variable changes to content and the movieclip reloads, showing content.txt in the text box, does anyone have any idea of how i would go about this?

thanks for your help.

Reloading Of Flash Doesnt Update Variables?
Hello!

I have a problem with a flash movie that counts down to a deadline. When the movie loads it collects the current date and time from the server via a php script. The first time I load the movie it shows the correct time left to the deadline as numbers counting down, but if I "refresh" the frame that holds the movie the countdown jumps back to the numbers it had the first time I loaded the movie (for example if it said 22:10:10 when I loaded first, and was down to 22:01:10 when I refreshed, it jumps back to 22:10:10). Why doesnt the flash-movie reload when I refresh the frame and yet again collects the correct time from the server via the script, and where the heck are those variables stored so that flash can "reuse" them when I reload the frame, they should be gone!?

If anyone gest what I'm saying I would be VERY thankful for help

/Magnus

Reloading A Movie To Obtain Variables Every 6 Seconds
I write to you, because I wonder if you can help me with a little code problem.

I want to made that a movie reload every 6 seconds a PHP file from a URL adress in order to actualize the variables every 6 seconds.

Could you help me please?, Does any know how to do that?.
That will really help me,

Thanks!

Send Variables From Flash To Php Without Reloading The Page
Hi,
I know there were many messages posted regarding sending variables from flash to php. But I am facing a problem. I wrote a small code where in I used send() method of LoadVar object, it sends the message but it reloads the php page which I do not want it to do. I tried using sendAndLoad() and here it does not send any variable at all. Below is my sample code. Please can anyone tell me where I am going wrong

PHP code: (recieve.php)
<?php
$s = "12";
$r = $_POST['name'];
echo $r;
?>
<embed name="move" src="static.swf" height=250 width=250 play="false" loop="false" quality="high">

Flash code:
c = new LoadVars();
c.onLoad = function() { trace(this.s); };
c.name = "xyz";
x.sendAndLoad("receive.php", c, "POST");

Argh Reloading Same Movie Doesnt Reset Variables Or Intervals?
Hi,
I have a "controler" movie which loads child movies into a movieClip called "holder_mc", if you load a child movieclip and run actions or functions within this, then reload the same child movieclip, the original settings are not reset and intervals are not cleared, which as you can expect causes some problems.

I am loading the movie with loadMovie, and inbetween reloading, i remove the movieclip, however this still has the same problem?!

ANy ideas would be great
thanks

Avoid Reloading Of Flash Movies When Passing Them Variables From Html
Hi all.
I've created a two-levels flash menu (mainsections each with subsections) which I am using as navigation in a html page. When I go to a different page, the html sends the movie a variable telling it to what section it should be automatically opened. Everything works fine except that when the movie receives a new variable it reloads from zero. Is there any way to avoid this without the use of frames?
Thank you very much.

Reloading Flash Clip Without Reloading HTML Page
Hello.
It is possible to Reload flash clip without reloading HTML page ?
Using JavaScript
I used this:

<javascript type='text/javascript'>
document.getElementById("id1").value="2.swf";
document.getElementById("id2").src="2.swf";
</javascript>

It's changes Tags Values. But the clip don't reloading.

Reloading A Swf
Hello,

I'm working on a clock in flash and I'm trying to tell Flash that I want it to reload the whole movie. Is there a function for that like reload(); or so?

thanks in advance

HELP Reloading New XML?
I have a XML parser that works fine and gets titles and URLs that get added in 2 arrays and get shown in 2 dynamic text fields (titles, and urls). The problem is i can't get it to reload a new XML page from a different URL, and show it. I tried as you can see but it just shows the same XML that was originally loaded. Whats the best way to do this? Here is my script. Thanks.

code:
//Initial settings that determine the url of the XML/RSS page.
category = "zip";
city = "newyork";
//_________________________
loadTheXML();
function loadTheXML() {
craigsRSS = new XML();
craigsRSS.ignoreWhite = true;
craigsRSS.load("http://"+city+".craigslist.org/"+category+"/index.rss");
craigsArray = new Array();
title_array = new Array();
link_array = new Array();
}
function parseTheXML() {
craigsArray = craigsRSS.firstChild.childNodes;
for (i=0; i<=craigsArray.length; i++) {
child_array = craigsArray[i].childNodes;
title_array.push(child_array[0].firstChild.NodeValue);
link_array.push(child_array[1].firstChild.NodeValue);
}
for (i=0; i<title_array.length; i++) {
titles += title_array[i] add "
";
urls += link_array[i] add "
";
}
titles = titles.toUpperCase();
urls = urls.toUpperCase();
}
craigsRSS.onLoad = parseTheXML;
Refresh.onPress = function() {
loadTheXML();
titles = "";
urls = "";
category = "muc";
city = "newjersey";
};

[CS3] Reloading Swf
Hello!

I got a game where I'd like a "new game" option, and the best way I could do that was simply reloading the swf file - then I wont have to reset all the variables and stuff. I was wondering if there was any way of doing this with code?

Thanks in advance.

Reloading SWF
I have a button saying back to main menu, and instead of coding everything to move back to where it came from iw as wondering if you could just reset or reload the current swf?

at the moment i am using:

function backtoMainMenu(event:MouseEvent):void
{
addChildAt(container, 8);
container.addChild(swfLoader);
swfLoader.load(imageRequest2);
}

but obviously that is just loading a second version on top of it which i thought wasnt the best method.

any input appreciated
thanks
Dan

Reloading XML
Hello,

Am new to this Flash, AS and XML, all the basic. Here is what i want to do:

I know how to load/read stuff from a XML file, but the contents from the XML file changes constantly, how do i reload the XML file?

Reloading XML?
I've been struggeling with this for a few days now.
I've made a guestbook that sends data to a php file, that creates an XML.
But when loading the XML file in Flash again, it wont load the new file.
I've only found solutions for AS2 so far with the random number, but it doesn't work for AS3.

Is there any answer to this?

(Yes I'm using the meta tag for no caching in my html/php file).

Help is GREATLY appreciated.

Swf Keeps Reloading Under IE
Hello everybody, i need some help here. I bought a flash template and changed to the way I want it. When I publish the swf it works fine under Mozilla and loads everything, but if I open it with internet Explorer it keeps reloading over and over and doesn't stop. I cant figure out why because if I open the IE cache and play the file from there it works just fine.
Anyway, if it helps this is the link where the swf is published:

http://wimatte.interfree.it

Please help me, thanks a lot

FMS App Keeps Reloading
Every day or few hours my FMS application instances keep reloading and kicking all users out that way.
Here are logs of one of such event:

edge:
2008-12-3007:31:591124(i)2701054Virtual host Disconnecting unresponsive core chatapp/_definst_ (29368) after 30 seconds is not available.-
2008-12-3007:31:591124(i)2581250Edge disconnected from core (29368).-
2008-12-3007:32:001124(i)2581252Registering core (23671).-

master:
2008-12-3007:31:591104(w)2581257Core (29368) _defaultRoot_:_defaultVHost_:::_2 is not responding and is being restarted!-
2008-12-3007:31:591104(i)2581221Core (23671) started, arguments : -adaptor "_defaultRoot_" -vhost "_defaultVHost_" -app -inst -tag "_2" -conf "./conf/Server.xml" -name "_defaultRoot_:_defaultVHost_:::_2".-
2008-12-3007:33:591104(w)2581260Core (29368) did not shutdown as expected. Killing core now.-
2008-12-3007:33:591104(i)2581223Core (29368) is no longer active.-

core:
2008-12-3007:31:5929368(i)2581247Core (29368) disconnected from edge.-
2008-12-3007:31:5929368(i)2581233Core (29368) disconnecting from admin.-

admin:
2008-12-3007:31:597844(i)2581242Core (29368) disconnected : _defaultRoot_:_defaultVHost_:::_2.-
2008-12-3007:32:007844(i)2581241Connection to admin received.-
2008-12-3007:32:007844(i)2581243Connection from core 23671 received.-
2008-12-3007:32:007844(i)2581244Connection from core 23671 accepted.-

do you have a clue why is this happening?

Swf Keeps Reloading Itself
hello,

when i am within my say..photography swf and click to go to resume.swf, the photography .swf keeps reloading itself. i have a lockroot function in the first line of the photography page. if you want to look at the files go here :
http://www.ryanhohman.com/archive.zip

Reloading An SWF
I've got a flash application I'm creating that loads external XML data and displays it. The application also lets you enter new data that then uses PHP to write the new data to the external XML file. I have all of this working perfectly. All I need it to do now, is once the new data has been added to the external XML file, I need the SWF to reload from the beginning, loading in the new updated XML file. How do I get the SWF to reload, or just play again from the beginning, when a button is pressed using Actionscript 3?

Reloading XML?
I've been struggeling with this for a few days now.
Is there a way to reload an XML file?
Right now, flash only uses the old data even though the XML file has been updated.

(Yes I'm using the meta tag for no caching in my html/php file).

Help is GREATLY appreciated.

Reloading XML When Changes
Hello everyone!
I would like to make an Index of a page in flash, that works like this.
OK, I have an XML file in which there is all information that I need to build my Index. It looks like this:

Code:

<CoursePages_XML PageID="9367" Location="A4-100-M4-PN.html" PageTitle="firstPage" Level="3" LevelAdjNo="5" PageVisited="1" QM_SessionID="" />
<CoursePages_XML PageID="9368" Location="nextPage.html" PageTitle="Next" Level="2" LevelAdjNo="6" PageVisited="1" QM_SessionID="" />

There are a lot of these...
So, I load my XML and I create a few arrays that contain all this information. And from now on it is not a problem to put all this on the screen.
Now, what I would like to do is, for example.... if we look at the attribute PageVisited="1". If this attribute is 0, than the page was not yet visited, right?! So, when I click on this link, the attribute should change to 1 and stay so. For example for visited links I have blue color, not visited white and actual red.... I am making it up now, but just so that I illustrate everything. So, as I said, the number should change to 1. So that when I click another ling, the color changes to blue and not back to white and when I visit this page again, it should remember which pages I have already visited.
I don't know how to do this, should I reload XML every time it changes, and if yes, how do I do that and wouldn't it be flickering... my index... reloading takes time and.... hm...
If not with reloading, how???

I would really appreciate all the help so thank you in advance. If I didn't explain enough, ask me, and I will tell some more...
Thanks

Flash Keeps Reloading
I am using flash in the navigation.
I am using three tables with include files. (ASP)T

Table one: flash navigation
Table two: content area
Table three: left navigation links

Is there a way to keep flash from refreshing or
read the url in the HTML file.

Reloading Movie?
Just curious about something.

Lets say I go to my movie (using MSIE as I do). I find something wrong so I fix it, re-publish and upload.

If I hit reload, I get same old movie not the new one unless I either:
1. Change movie file name
2. close browser and re-open.

Is there a way around this? I know with php, you can just do somelamevar=randomnumbersequence.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

SoundObject Reloading...is It Possible?
i have a sound flash movie (playing music) popping up on the home page of my website. it's in a separate window so the music can continue to play as people look around the rest of the website.

my problem is everytime you go back to the homepage the flash movie reloads and starts over again.

is there a way to not have the flash movie do this?

thanks.
kai

Reloading .swf Files
Im building a reporting engine that uses flash-based charts. The charts work perfectly, the problem Im having is that every time I attempt to re-run a report it caches my old .swf file, so the same chart is displayed over and over again.

The .swf file retains the same file name as new values are fed into the API and new charts are generated.

I guess my question would be:

Is there a parameter for the <embed> tag or a javascript that would force-refresh every single page element upon a form submission? Including flash?

The Flash chart generation I'm using is supplied by a product appropriately named "FlashCharts".

Thanks!

Reloading Page
This is an interesting one.

I'd like to have a flash movie at the top of my page serving me as an interface. But then everytime when I open a new page (target=_top), the movie on top reloads. I'd like it if that wouldn't happen and the movie would stay untouched. One way of solving this is with the use of frames. But I don't want that.

Any suggestions? Thanx

Reloading Text?
On my website, the news page refers to a text file (news.txt) for the text. This way I can easily update the news without having to change the flash file. Here is the link to my site, click on the news buttion at the top to see how I did it. http://imagenotapplied.com/newsite/inaflashmain.html

Now, my problem is... when I update the text file and upload it to the site, it does not change on the flash page. This is because it is probably stored in temporary internet files. I was able to see the updated text file by going to http://imagenotapplied.com/newsite/news.txt and pressing the refresh button in my browser. I don't want the users to hyave to do this, I want to to refresh itself. How do I do this in flash?

Reloading .swf From Server
I have .swf in my .php site
I'm calling it with different parameters and every call upload the same file from server. How to use file from TemporaryInternetFiles folder?

Help Reloading Projector
I want my projector file to reload after it is not in use for a period of time (say two minutes). In other words, if the mouse is inactive in any frame for two minutes I would like the movie to return to frame one. If anyone is aware of a script or other technique please notify me.

External Swf Reloading
hey was wanting to know if there is anyway that i could get flash to

A: check to see if the external swf has been loaded or not when the user clicks on a button to load the movie.

B: if it has been loaded already then when the button is pressed flash bypasses loading the movie again but instead plays the mc the external movie has been loaded into.

anyhelp would be awesome

cheers

Flash Keeps Reloading
After two days of: "Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /www2/flashkit/html/board/search.php on line 431" from the site search I’m forced to ask a question I now had to be asked before.

I have created a website which includes a flash image. However, this image keeps reloading every time I go a different page with the same template. Is there a way to keep the flash image from reloading every time?

Reloading Frames
I'm almost done with my site
but there is a problem with reloading frames.
There is no problem when I test it offline -
only when live on a browser.
Please take a look at my site:
www.isabellalarocca.com

For example, if you go through the animation strand
then go back
it will not load the video again.
Or if you go through the animation strand
then the photo-illustration strand
then back to the animation strand
it will not load the first frame.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Transitional Reloading
hi all
I know that externally loading Swf is well documented in this forum and if by any chance this post has already been covered then my sincere apologies.

Right After looking at the great tutorials on this site I decided that i would create a transitional mask that would reveal it's self and show a load bar while the external swf is loading up.

From experiment in creating preloaders for swf's i can create them without too much problems, But it seems the method of calculating the getbytestotal and loaded differs when we are calculating them from movieclips (this Im not sure about)

Anyways i have attached my example flas

OK SO WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO?

Well i have created a small transition movieclip that will execute to load an external movie called "sparkle2.swf" into an empty movieclip called "cool"

What I am wanting to do is have a loadbar that tells the viewer how much is left of the swf (which is loading in the "cool" movieclip") which it has finished loading the transition then gotos a specific frame in its time line.

Im not sure if my code is wrong or whether my approach is complete wrong but any help will as always be greatly appreciated

kind regards

w9914420

p.s the attached files are below - thanks

Music Reloading
please can anyone help.

i've a simple music movie clip with an on/off button which works fine.
when i insert it into the scene however, i think it reloads and starts again i.e. starts to play after you've turned it off.

is there a way to stop this. i've tried placing it before the keyframe which i go back to- still seems not to work.

thanks

Reloading A ComboBox
Hello All,

I have this code on frame 1, and a button permitting the user to move to frame 10, which itself has a button to return to frame one.

code: this.batch_cbx.onLoad = function () {
recEnvelopeWSconn.trigger();
}

I cannot seem to get the ComboBox to reload upon return. How should I trigger the web service again?

thanks!

[F8] Disable Reloading Of A MC
Hey guys just curious if somebody could point me to code that would allow me to load an external MC, but disable loading of it once it's already loaded so that it only has to load once no matter which button is clicked on the main MC?

Reloading A .txt File
I have a flash movie that loads a .txt file for content. Now i update the .txt file and set the flash movie to loop hoping it would "reload" the txt file,but it doesnt work. What can i do?

Non-Reloading Flash
I have heard that there is a way to make a flash header not reload by using a shared object (flash cookie) PLEASE is there any way to do this? Seriously PLEASE HELP ME I'm DESPERATE!

THANKS SO MUCH

Reloading A Frame
Hey guys,
I have a frame with actionscript on it (roughly formatted like so)

actions
more actions
stop();

Meanwhile there's a button on the stage, and when you hit it the idea is that it reloads the current frame (there's a conditional loop involved here but we'll ignore that for the sake of simplicity). Anyway, I decided the best way to refresh the frame would be like so:

on(keypress "l") {
gotoAndPlay(4);
}

But that plays frame four and continues playing, jumping back to the start of the program. It seems to be ignoring the stop command in my frame actions for frame 4.
If, however, I tell it to gotoAndPlay(3) then it skips through three (ignoring its stop) and jumps to four (where it does stop). That suits my needs fine because four does refresh, but I get a brief flash of frame three as it speeds through it, which sucks and means I need to figure out what the hell is going on.

Any thoughts? Full code from frame 4 actions is as follows:

//set qCategory
qCategory = random (2);
if (qCategory == 1) {
qCategory = "flowers"
} else {
qCategory = "insects";
}
//select random item from qCategory
if (qCategory == "flowers") {
qStimulus = flowers[random(flowers.length)];
qCorrect = 1;
} else {
qStimulus = insects[random(insects.length)];
qCorrect = 2;
}
//q1._alpha = 100;
//qNumber.text = "Question 1";
stimulus.text = qStimulus
lockout = false;
stop();

And code from the button is as follows:

on(keypress "a") {
if (lockout == false) {
if (qCorrect != 1) {
colorStimulus = new Color(stimulus);
colorStimulus.setRGB(0x990000);
lockout = true
resetColor.play();
} else {
gotoAndPlay(4);
}
}
}

Any thoughts? Thanks for reading

Reloading Movies - Help
Hi there! I’m having grief with switching between loading and reloading movies!
I’m using this coding:

loadMovieNum("a.swf", 1);

How do the layers work? Maybe I’m doing something wrong there. I want to load one movie into another, which is working fine, but then I want to unload it and go back to the original movie, (at the moment I’m seeing previous movie images behind the current movie.) And then when I want the option of reloading the same movie and loading other movies too, but it won’t work! Ahhhhh! Can someone please help me?! : )

Regards, Nean