Waiting for server response

[eslacker]

I've been working on a dynamic User-Poll that receives the value of a question and multiple answers from an ASP script. After the user selects an answer and it is submitted to the script for processing, I haven't been able to get my result values to display the first time around. After I refresh the page and select an answer again, the values are there. They just don't show up the first time. I even have a check in place where I poll a variable called "complete" to see if it contains a string before I display the results. But still, nuttin'!

So, I tried plan b and broke everything into different MCs, read the Q & As, sent the user's response, and then read in the results from a text file that my script updated, and everthing worked! I'd rather do plan a, which is to have my script serve everything to my SWF, but it's not working right.

Any thoughts?

[Alexei]

could it be the server response time is taking to long?

try delaying the swf movie(insert a few empty frames or something)
i had the same problem and this worked...
hope it does for u to

[wubbo]

To add some frames isn't the most beautiful sollution. What
if the server decides to wait a little longer to respond.

The best way to wait is to loop over the frame until your
variable contains a string.


// on frame x
if (var ne "")
// show the results
else
go to and play(x-1)
end if

remeber to go one frame back, and not the same frame,
because then the actionscript won't be executed again.

This will work no matter how long it takes for the server
to respond.