xml written check

[psycookie]

Hi,

I've made a game that writes highscore to XML file. First it reads existing XML file with scores and than compare current game score with existing scores in the XML file and than it rewrittes higher scores and adds new score to XML object and rewrites existing XML file with new one (with help of PHP ofcourse). The problem is that sometimes the server needs some time to write the new xml file and if I play the game again in meantime and get to scores, and if PHP hasn't finish writting new XML the game will load old XML so it will not show last score made.

How to check if PHP has finished writting new XML file and tell flash to somehow wait for XML file to be rewritten?

I hope I was clear, please help me, this is driving me crazy.
Tnx

[arkitx]

There might be many way to do this.

Here are my first way:

Put an Boolean Attribute in your xml structure. For example:

<gameScore loaded="true">1780</gameScore> 

When PHP loads the xml file into flash it checks the attribute and also re-write the xml attribute loaded to false.

This will again re-write to true when the highest score will written. In the mean time if you start the game flash will check the loaded is true or not. If it loads false then flash will not allow to start the game.


Simple...


arkitx

[psycookie]

Thanks

Could you explain this little more cause I still can't figure it out. What this 1780 value mean?

[arkitx]

var bool:String;
var score:XML = new XML();
score.ignoreWhite = true;
score.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
    if (success) {
        var xml = score.firstChild;
        bool = (xml.attributes.loaded);
        trace(xml.childNodes);
    } else {
        trace("unable to load XML");
    }
};
score.load("score.xml");

start.onRelease = function() {
    trace(bool);
    if (bool == "true") {
        gameStart();
        bool = "false";
    }
    trace(bool);
};

[psycookie]

Thank you very much for the code.

I've managed to solve it differently,

I've added id attribute to XML <scores id="0"> which is changed by actionscript (generated random game id number) every time someone makes high score. Then flash checks in intervals if XML loaded has that number (checks if new XML file has been written to server). Then if current game id is the same as attribute in XML it means the XML file was saved. Then it enables "play game" button

[arkitx]

Thank You,

I was not able to see what I was posting until the moderator approved the post. This might be the policy of this forum, someone could not allowed under 10 posts.

I was did that in some other way. If you need that I can post it.


arkitx

[psycookie]

Yes thank you, I would like to see how you done it
Please post the code.
Thanx