I'm writing an application that involves a user posting significant amounts of text. I'd like to be able to monitor the status of the upload but from various posts around I've discovered that the ProgressEvent is only dispatched during the download when you use URLLoader. Can anyone suggest a way to make this happen? I've been thinking of extending the socket class for this reason but I'd be working in unfamiliar ground if that's the case.
Here's a sample mxml that demonstrates the simplified idea. <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; layout="absolute" initialize="fillText()"> <mx:Script> <!--[CDATA[ import flash.utils.setTimeout; import flash.net.*; private var myLoader:URLLoader public function fillText():void { } private function handleSubmit():void { var data:ByteArray = new ByteArray(); while (data.length < 1000000) { data.writeUTF("012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456\ 789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678\ 901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890\ 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012\ 3456789\n"); } progress.text += "About to upload " + data.length + "B\n"; var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://192.168.6.204:8081/portal/upload.rvt";); req.data = data; req.method = URLRequestMethod.POST myLoader = new URLLoader(); myLoader.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, handleProgress); myLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, handleComplete); myLoader.load(req); setTimeout(checkLoader,500); } private function handleProgress(e:ProgressEvent):void { progress.text += e.bytesLoaded + "/" + e.bytesTotal + " loaded\n"; } private function handleComplete(e:Event):void { progress.text += "Complete.\n"; } private function checkLoader():void { progress.text += myLoader.bytesLoaded + " sent\n"; setTimeout(checkLoader,500); } ]]--> </mx:Script> <mx:Panel layout="vertical" title="Upload Progress" horizontalcenter="0" verticalcenter="0"> <mx:Button id="submit" label="Submit" click="handleSubmit()"> <mx:TextArea id="progress" width="400" height="300"> </mx:TextArea> </mx:Button> </mx:Panel></mx:Application> Thanks in advance for any advice. CM
