Comments on: Flex Controlling Flash

By: bradbury

bradbury — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:23:24 +0000

An important warning which I would have been VERY grateful to recive in time:

LocalConnections are BUGGY as hell. don’t try to make more then 10 or so connects simultaniously or some of them will fail without proper errors. sometimes they crash your browser, too.

more here: http://www.iherebydecree.com/archive/id/836

good times (crazy laughter)…

By: Nishant

Nishant — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:33:15 +0000

Hi,

I don’t think it works just as clean as it’s understood to. I’ve an AS2 app which in turns loads a lot of content (swfs, images). But the problem is that when this application is loaded inside an AS3 container, it goes bonkers. All the onLoadInit events stop responding and the contexts are all messed up. I’ll try setup a demo to show you what I mean.

But if you’ve seen this happen already, please help.

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:52:07 +0000

Yes. LocalConnection is one connection. I believe the Flash / JavaScript kit in the past used multiple unique ID's for the LocalConnection names set via JavaScript. This ensured unique connection names with the ability to launch multiple browser instances.

By: Henk

Henk — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:35:30 +0000

Great article.
One question though, wouldn’t the use of LocalConnection limit the application to a single instance? If you run the video example twice then the second throws an error.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:21:15 +0000

Great article for even a pseudo Flex programmer. I am having an issue implementing the proxy in a TitleWindow. I have it flying and rocking and rolling with content the first time I open the TitleWindow and view the movie. Once I close the window (and stop the movie) I cannot seem to get the proxy to reset itself. I open the window the second time and it just sits at main_state waiting for proxy to load. If I refresh the browser it works great again. Too bad that would erase all the form data that they are filling out!

Any thoughts on this issue? From having your example in an Application and not a component I am concerned I am missing something about stopping and starting the proxy connection again!

Jon