[swfmill] Accessing frames in AS3

[Trevor Burton]

Sorry Joel, i don't have any suggestions for the swfmill xml, as i said earlier i haven't had any experience creating AS3 swfs with swfmill...
 
(localconnection is slow if you use one connection heavily... not sure about using many connections lightly... )
 
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From: swfmill-bounces at osflash.org on behalf of Joel Poloney
Sent: Tue 13/11/2007 07:55
To: swfmill at osflash.org
Subject: Re: [swfmill] Accessing frames in AS3


If I used the LocalConnection, it's main purpose would basically be for initialization. I would create a LocalConnection class and use it as a proxy to communicate between AVM1 movieclips and the rest of my Flex project. So... the most I would be doing is issuing commands across the LocalConnection that says "goto this frame and stop". Is it slow if you use 1 instance heavily? or is it slow if you use 50 instances very light? 

Also, getting back to the main part of this thread. Trevor, did you have any suggestions on the syntax of my swfmill xml? I'm curious why it's not outputting to flash 9 (Flex seems to think it's an AVM1 movie). I also think that I'm not setting up the frames correctly. 

Thanks again!

-- Joel


On Nov 12, 2007 11:39 PM, Trevor Burton <trevor.burton at virtuefusion.com> wrote:


	LocalConnection is very easy to set up and utilise. It can be quite slow if you use it heavily - and you wouldn't be able to send an image over it as such.... it's more like an rpc setup.... You declare a LocalConnection with the same name in both of the swfs and then call the connection and pass the name of the function you'd like to call on the other swf and pass the parameters along with it. 
	
	The data size limit is documented somewhere - it's reasonably well-known.
	
	Something that isn't documented about it (as far as i know) is an issue with multiple browser windows. The LocalConnection will only work in the first browser window that's opened containing your swfs. So if you open a browser window to test your swfs you'll seei t working, if you then open another browser window it won't be working. This can cause confusing when you're testing - you open it in IE and it works, you open it in FireFox and it doesn't work.... i remember having great fun trying to explain this to a client who was adamant it didn't work in FireFox, but was caused by this 'Security Feature' 
	

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	Trevor Burton
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	VirtueFusion
	14-16 Betterton Street
	London, WC2H 9AH
	t: 0207 420 6420
	m: 07954 239 024
	
	
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	From: swfmill-bounces at osflash.org on behalf of Joel Poloney
	
	Sent: Tue 13/11/2007 04:37
	
	To: swfmill at osflash.org
	Subject: Re: [swfmill] Accessing frames in AS3
	
	
	
	That's interesting that Adobe doesn't formerly announce a data size limit like that. Is that a data size limit per transaction? What would happen if I tried to send an image over the LocalConnection? would this fail if the image was larger than 32k? 
	
	I would be loading arbitrary AVM1 swfs in the following manner (from the first post in this thread):
	
	
	
	       I've been trying to use swfmill to generate a movie in which I can access the specific frames (eg: gotoAndStop(2) for frame 2) in AS3. But, I haven't been successful yet. Is this possible? For example, I want to create a movie with 10 frames, and on each frame there's an image, text, etc. 
	
	
	I already have existing swf files (more than I would be willing to manually add code to) and I am looking to make this process automated. So, the wrapper idea would be favorable. Actually, being able to compile into AVM2 would be most favorable... but this LocalConnection wrapper/hack works too I suppose :) 
	
	
	On Nov 12, 2007 8:03 PM, Hudson Ansley <hudsonansley at gmail.com> wrote:
	
	
	       the data size limit was from experience, not sure of the exact number. 
	       Are you loading arbitrary AVM1 swfs or could you recompile them with
	       some added code?
	
	
	
	

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