F8 AS2 Electroserver 3 in a buckle

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Good day!
I am trying to get this game from the Electroserver 3 examples to work.

I know this is old stuff, but it’s for the sake of learning. From the old forums in electroserver I remember a post where Jobe, the creator of this game mentioned that the client was no table to sort the userlist so I have tried to build a plugin to create and populate it in a sorted manner.

When I receive this userlist in the clients, it builds a sorted playerList but I can’t understand why the userList won’t be seen inside the showUsers() function in the game frame when it exists in the timeline:

// Gets the userList
//trace("UserList "+userList);

function showUsers(userList, type, name) {
if (type == “userleft” && name == opponent) {
game_clip.opponent_left();
}

// if I try to get the userList here, nothing shows:
// trace("UserList "+userList);
spectatorList = new Array();
//Max players allowed in this game
maxPlayers = es.getRoom().Description.attributes.numPlayers;
allowSpectators = es.getRoom().Description.attributes.allowSpectators;
//myNum = es.getUser().AssignedNumber.value;
var highestNum:Number = 0;
for (var i = 0; i<userList.length; ++i) {
var user:Object = userList*;
var num:Number = i;
user.AssignedNumber.value = num;
if (num>=0 && num != undefined && num != null && num<maxPlayers) {
//Add them to the player list
if (num>highestNum) {
highestNum = num;
}
user.gamePlayer = true;
playerList.push(user);
trace(playerList*.Name.value);
} else {
//Add them to the spectator list
user.gamePlayer = false;
spectatorList.push(user);
}
}

//Populate the on-screen list boxes
showBothListBoxes();
if (playerList.length == maxPlayers && num == 0) {
//If everyone is here and you are player 0 (i.e., the game master), then tell everyone to start the process
sendStartMove(playerList[1].Name.value);
} else if (playerList.length == maxPlayers && num == 1) {
trace("Jugador 0 = "+playerList[0].Name.value);
trace("Jugador 1 = "+playerList[1].Name.value);
sendStartMove();
} else if (playerList.length == maxPlayers) {
spectatorStart();
}
if (!es.getUser().gamePlayer && es.getUser().AssignedNumber.value>=maxPlayers) {
//This happens when you click to join as a player but someone else just barely beats you to it to fill out he game
//This user should be informed and given the option to watch or leave
if (!allowSpectators) {
//They don’t allow spectators. You tried to join as a player but the game was full
goBack();
}
}
if (es.getRoom().Description.attributes.playersArrived != highestNum+1 && num == 0) {
//+1 because the numbering starts from 0
changeDetail(highestNum+1);
}
game_clip.setGamePlayerList(playerList);
game_clip.setSpectatorList(spectatorList);
}