Chuck Hill wrote:
Hi,
On Dec 12, 2005, at 12:24 PM, Nathan Walker wrote:
I guess I was looking to see if anybody had any innovative ideas on
this concept. I guess I could have the Flash constantly looping
through posting requests to the server and checking things, (Maybe
have a DirectAction that returned an XML response telling the Flash
animation how much cash had been inserted. That way, there is no
MetaRefresh and the app seems to be sitting there and active without
having to Refresh every 3 seconds or so to check variables and such.
But it is still cycling back to the server.
That seems bloated though, because essentially the Flash animation
would be posting a request every 3 seconds checking for the response
value avoiding the metarefresh. Maybe this is where AJAX should be
used ?
Then AJAX would be doing the same sort of server polling, no?
It seems to me this sort of thing is needed a lot. Surely not
everybody out there is using WOMetaRefresh for this are they ??
I don't see there is much of an option. Something has to check unless
your app has a direct connection to each client.
FWIW, you can open a socket in flash and connect to a server socket. I
played around with this a few years ago but my lack of of flash skills
(I didnt know what I was doing) didnt help. Maybe its a option you could
look into?
cheerio,
- shaun
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