ONE out of a number of variables saved via ASP

[mgade]

Hi

Well I've tried before.. I have no troubles reading anything with ASP and presenting it in Flash 5.

But I cant figure out how to store a single variable to ASP. It seems FLASH insist on "exporting" every variable in the entire program (including the accumulated chat). Isn't there a way to limit this overhead??

More specific: I've made an Flash front end to an ASP chat. The actual chat is stored in the application object, serverside (but it could have been a text file or a database as well). Reading the chat into Flash and throwing it around in funny ways is no problem.. But grabing a users "one-liner" (chat!!) and sending it back to ASP in an effective way seems impossible, since the overhead of the rest of the variables kills the bandwith..

Am I making myself understood? Else - please ask!

I am persistent with this, since the resulting flickerfree almost working chat holds great promises when considering simplicity and multiple installations on a single server (on a school: a number of "classrooms").

(I would love to avoid XML socket servers - but am prepared to use XML if this is a way to store/export those variables)

[Ilya]

Hi !

You may try to move single variable, that must be send to ASP, in separate symbol and call loadvariables with get or post from that symbol

[mgade]

Hi Ilya

Thanks for the strategy - I had a dim idea in the same direction and I'll keep your input as plan B, as I thisn I've found another way that just requires a rewrite of my loadVariablesNum statement.

This neither uses POST or GET and looks like:
loadVariablesNum ("NameOfScript.asp?newchat=" add ASnewCharVar, 0);

Thanks again
MGade

[mgade]

Check out http://www.asp101.com/articles/misc/chat.asp..

I get some errors trying to run it - but I believe the idea of using XML is sound??

(This chat thing is a "left hand project" for me - but others could benefit right away)

[Musicman]

Hi.

if you send a user's contribution to the chat via ?text=.... you should definitely escape() that text....
loadVariablesNum('script.asp?newchat=' + escape(ASnewCharVar)

Musicman

[mgade]

Hi Musicman

You have a point there!!! Thanks!

mGade