basically tells flash to run the specified function at the specified
interval.
You can find more info in the Flash ActionScript dictionary.
Hope that helps...
mike chambers
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Barney Boisvert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 4:40 PM
Subject: RE: Heartbeat with Flash?
> Here's what I'd do. make a new movie. set the frame rate to 1 (1 frame
> per
> second). in frame 30, add a single action:
>
>
> loadVariables("yourUrlToCheck", 1);
>
>
> export the movie.
>
>
> put that in a page, and every 30 seconds, it'll hit whatever URL you
> specify. The output from the page should be a valid query string (not
> includeing the question mark). The empty string is valid. The help
> that
> comes with Flash is generally pretty good, I thought. Pretty mcuh all I
> use.
>
>
> cheers,
> banreyb
>
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> From: cf-talk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 4:27 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: Heartbeat with Flash?
>
> Barney,
>
> Thanks for the advice... Unfortunately I haven't really taken much of a
> look into Flash much or Flash Remoting. What would be the easiest way
> and could you point me to a couple resources?
>
> -Novak
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barney Boisvert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 4:16 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: Heartbeat with Flash?
>
> It'd be a snap with flash, using either remoting or just a loadVariables
> call. I know there was a limitation with flash 5 where you couldn't
> make a
> movie smaller than 18x18 though. don't know if that's still in place
> with 6
> (mx) and 7 (mx04).
>
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>
> From: cf-talk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 4:12 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Heartbeat with Flash?
>
> Hi All,
>
> Just tried to send this message out a few moments ago and it seemed to
> hang. My apologies in advance if it turns into a double post...
>
> I currently have an application that has a built in "heartbeat"... A 1x1
> pixel iframe that refreshes itself every 30 seconds.
>
> This heartbeat updates the database and lets me know that a user is
> still online. Everything works great except for the fact that MSIE
> browsers make a "click" sound every time the refresh takes place. It's
> very annoying.
>
> I thought that perhaps I could create a 1x1 pixel flash movie to
> accomplish the same thing, only without the annoying click.
>
> Any ideas as to how difficult this would be to implement?
>
> Any other ideas are also more than welcome...
>
> -Novak
>
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