At 9:50 PM +0200 10/16/00, J�rn Madsen wrote:
>Hi list,
>
>I am having some problems with the following code:
>
>on exitFrame
> global mynetID
> set mynetID =
>preloadNetThing("http://www.myweb.com/textfile/fileCont.txt")
>
> if netDone(mynetID) = FALSE then
> go to the frame
> else
> alert "Downloaded"
> end if
>
> theText = getPref("fileCont.txt")
> member("fileContent").text = theText
>end
>
>
>
>when the line theText = getPref.... is run I get an Script Error. Why?
>
>The file is downloaded and it is a frameScript.
There are a couple of things wrong with this code - but I don't see a
script error. The main things that I see are:
1) You really only want to do your preloadNetThing once. Your
current code is asking to preload on every frame event. You probably
want something like this:
property myNetID -- probably no need to make this a global, just
use a property
on beginSprite
set mynetID =preloadNetThing("http://www.myweb.com/textfile/fileCont.txt")
end
on exitFrame
if netDone(mynetID) = FALSE then
go to the frame
else
alert "Downloaded"
end if
theText = getPref("fileCont.txt")
member("fileContent").text = theText
end
2) Then, it's not clear what you are trying to do here. Are you
trying to preload a file, then when you have the file, then get the
text from it? Or are you really trying to talking to two different
files? (The file names are the same) The first call to preload
tries to preload a file from the internet into your cache, but the
call to getPref tries to get the text out of a local file in your
Director/Prefs directory. A file like this is generated by a
previous call to SetPref.
If you are trying to get the text of a local file, then use GetPref.
If you want to get the text in a file from the internet (which is
what I'm guessing you are really trying to do), then you can
optionally use preloadNetThing, then use getNextText to to actually
get the text. Look up getNetText in the docs.
Irv
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