ok well I haven't found any solutions for writing XML files to disk...
how weird is that???
I've decided to go ahead and reprogram the whole XML reader so that it
reads in SharedObjects instead... as I need to finish this project by
Friday.
It took a little while to figure out I had to use localPath to share
between SWFs and AMF0 encoding to share between AS3 and AS2, but I am on
my way to success... quite the hassle, lost hours, but I think this is
the only way?
Thanks,
Sebastian.
sebastian wrote:
Hello,
Been searching for answers and I was wondering what options there was
for saving local XML files; as this seems to be a stickler... (?)
I have two flash files; the two flash applications will run on different
screens connected to the same computer.
One of them is an already built application that I don't want to edit
very much, cause it's an ugly monster. Previously it loaded XML files
from a web-server [which collected SMS/text entries from users], but now
it needs to read the XML file from the local disk where it is running
and there is NO internet access anymore. As it reads items from the XML
it needs to delete the entries. It's display is actually a very large
projector/LCD mounted on a wall for everyone to see.
The other application, which is connected to a touchscreen interface
[replacing the need for a user's mobile/cell phone], needs to generate
lines that feed into the same XML file the beast is reading, so that it
can generate a sort of queue for it to run through.
The original beast is in AS2 and messy [read: painful to edit any code],
the new touch screen is clean and in AS3. It's running on all on local
Window computers as a pair of dual full-screen projectors [.exe files],
no PHP facilities or local DB I'm afraid.
My question is:
* is there anyway at all to have these two applications read and
write/delete entries from the XML files?
* If not, what workarounds do I have at my disposal? Can I read/write to
a text file (*.txt) instead?
* I know "shared objects" exist, am I forced to use this in this situation?
* finally, is there any 'smart' way to "lock" a file or have one of the
flash files prevent the other from writing/reading to the same file at
the same time? I don't know if this is an issue, but I could foresee
file corruption if both flash files try and write to a file at the same
instant.
Thanks for your insight!!
With kind,
Sebastian.
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