Sebastian, You can achieve file writing and reading using one of the many available flash wrappers.
I'd take a look at Northcode's SWFStudio: http://www.northcode.com/swfstudio.php or SWHX: http://www.haxe.org/com/libs/swhx Or Adobe's own AIR, but you would have to wrap your AS2 application in some AS3 code to make it work. HTH, Ian On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 6:05 PM, sebastian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >> > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
