Using Flash LoadVars.SendandLoad in Director MX

[dhurd webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi Folks,
I am using the Flash
LoadVars.sendAndLoad command within a flash movie.

This works fine in flash(HTML & Projector) but doesn't work at all when the flash movie is embedded
within director. It appears that flash has no problems sending this through a Proxy server, but director does? It also appears that director doesn't make use of the default browser proxy setting hence the reason this not working?

Anyone have any ideas on this.

Cheers
Darrin Hurd

[Rob Dillon]

Is the Flash file fully imported or linked? If it's fully imported then
network calls won't work because the call is going out to the Director
movie, not the browser window. If the Flash file is linked you should
get the result that you expect.

You might want to take a look at the tech notes on working with Flash
in Director.

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Rob
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[url]http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/director/articles/flash_in_director_[/url]
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[url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/sample_flashvars[/url]
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[url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/index_sample_fil[/url]
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Each of these has some useful information about working with Flash in
Director.

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Rob
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[dhurd webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi Rob,
Thanks for your response.
However, I had read those tech notes, and nowhere can I see it state that to send data
from flash using LoadVars.sendAndLoad(), that the flash content needs to be linked externally.

To compound this, I changed my system so that the flash content was linked externally, and it still didn't work.

This is a problem that only occurs on some systems, and I beleive is related to the proxy server settings.
Embedding, or linking the content into director on my system, works fine, I can send and retreive data at will. However if I try and run the same software on a school server, with stricter proxy settings, it won't send at all.

If I dont have the content in Director, but run it either from an html page, or as a flash EXE, it works fine on both systems.

This is a bit of a pain, the only way I have managed to get it to work, is by having director launch a flash exe, and communicate the data we want to send through to the flash exe by using Local Connection Objects. The flash EXE then handles all communication with the Server, and works fine.
This of course is not the ideal situation, and is more of a Band-Aid until I can resolve why Director will not do this.
I also had the flash embedded in an ie ActiveX window within director, which worked as well, but required the user to install the flash OCX.

Many Thanks
Darrin Hurd