Re: FLASH: Form mail with Flash

[Motomichi]

Guys, Thanks for the great tips!! Let me try both to see which is easier for

me. I am pretty bad at scripting...


Best Regards

>

>

> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 08:41:15 -0400

>

From: Helen Triolo <designeri-technica [dot] com>

> Subject: Re: FLASH: Form mail with Flash

>

> Two things you could try:

>

> 1) Don't go straight to the frame where you check the variable returned

> from Perl.  Instead, stick in a loop to wait for command ne "" before

> proceeding.  Then go to frame "Sending".

>

> 2) Change the loadvariables to a geturl temporarily, which will cause

> the Perl script to dump to the browser instead of returning the value to

> Flash.  That way you can check and see what the contents of "command"

> are in the browser window.  When that's correct, change the getURL back

> to a Loadvarsnum statement to return the value to Flash instead.

>

> Regards,

> Helen

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i think your script isn't looping correctly

i would put an extra frame after the "sending" frame


"sending" would read:


if (command eq "end") {

    gotoAndStop ("sendok");

} else if (command eq "error") {

    gotoAndStop ("senderror");

}


and the next frame:


gotoAndPlay ("sending")



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