LocalConnection Help please.

[drbarber00]

Hello all, I use these forums quite often but usually do not have to post since the answers are everywhere, but I cannot seem to get this to work. I am using a webservice to populate my movie with data but I need to be able to pass 2 arrays from that first movie to my second, which will be on the webpage. The first array is a list of video sources, the second is the number of video sources available (changes daily). When I test both .swf's locally and i only send 1 array i can populate my dynamic text boxes but the movie crashes, when I send both arrays I get nothing, and it also crashes. I am using as2 in flash cs3. this is the code that i have been working with.

Sending:

var outgoing_lc:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
sport.onRelease = function(Void):Void { outgoing_lc.send("videolist", "methodToExecute", vt, nvid);};

Receiving:

var incoming_lc:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
incoming_lc.connect("videolist");
incoming_lc.methodToExecute =
function(param1:Array, param2:Array):Void { vt = param; };

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. ~Sean P.

[drbarber00]

bump

[e_tit]

Just try this....

Create a dynamic textbox with instance name "checking"(don't forget to make it multiline) inside your 'receiving' swf and write this code under that frame:

var incoming_lc = new LocalConnection();
incoming_lc.connect("videolist");
incoming_lc.thefunction = function(param1, param2) {
    checking.text = param1+"\n********"+param2;

}; 

And write this code in your 'sending' swf:

var outgoing_lc = new LocalConnection();
sport.onRelease = function() {
    outgoing_lc.send("videolist","thefunction",vt,nvid);
}; 

What do you get in the textbox(checking.text) ??

[drbarber00]

i get the data without crashing ... So now my second swf has both arrays (the names of the streams and the amount number of streams available)... How would I go about populating dynamic text boxes with this info? i have an array of text boxes called "vx", the individual text boxes are "vd1" - "vd20"... vt is the array of names (vt1 - vt?) and nvid is the amount... this seems to crash when i fire the display function though... ?


//-----------------------------------------Receiving SWF
var incoming_lc = new LocalConnection();
incoming_lc.connect("videolist");
incoming_lc.thefunction = function(param1, param2) {
//vd1.text = param2 + "\n********"+param2;

};

var vx:Array = new Array(vd1,vd1,vd2,vd3, etc. etc.)

function DisplayVideoList(){
var i = 0;
for (i=1;i<=nvid;i++){
vx[i].text = vt[i];}
}

[e_tit]

Hmm... Are you actually trying to populate textboxes 'vd1 to vd20' with array values from param1. And similarly textboxes 'vt1 to vt20' with array values from param2?

If thats the case then this should be fine:

var incoming_lc = new LocalConnection();
incoming_lc.connect("videolist");
incoming_lc.thefunction = function(param1, param2) {
    for (i=1; i<=param1.length; i++) {
        eval("vd"+i).text = param1[i-1]; 
        eval("vt"+i).text = param2[i-1];
    }
}; 

[e_tit]

Hey, i just read your first post once again. I guess you are passing the second parameter only as an identifier 'number' which contains the 'total number' of elements in array 'vt'. If thats the case you really don't need to pass this 'second' parameter, because this second parameter is anyhow going to be a number which will be the total number of array elements in the first array

So you can simply do this:

//receiver
var incoming_lc = new LocalConnection();
incoming_lc.connect("videolist");
incoming_lc.thefunction = function(param1) {
    for (i=1; i<=param1.length; i++) {
        eval("vd"+i).text = param1[i-1];        
    }
}; 
//sender
var outgoing_lc = new LocalConnection();
sport.onRelease = function() {
    outgoing_lc.send("videolist","thefunction",vt); //vt is the array
}; 

[drbarber00]

That worked other then that I am getting "undefined" for "vd1"? the other boxes are correct though, thank you so much for the time and help.

[e_tit]

Did you miss my post#6

[drbarber00]

bingo.