[mx] overriding onLoad() problems

programming flash
1

Greetings.

I need to make my Flash application create a connection to a remote application and have the remote application send periodic updates to my Flash animation. The remote app is written in VB 6, and does not support XML sockets. However, I don’t need the ability to send or receive XML since I am going to be overriding the onLoad() event anyway.

Or maybe I do need that ability…

I’m having trouble getting my onLoad() event to trigger. Right now I’m just testing the onLoad event like this:

[AS]
mySocket.onLoad = function(rawData) {
trace(rawData);
}
[/AS]

So, basically I’m trying to find out how I can format the data I’m sending it so that the onLoad() event triggers. I’ve read that the XMLSocket object listens for the Null byte, so perhaps the data I’m sending it doesn’t terminate properly.

I need a persistent connection from Flash to the VB app because the VB app will be the one initiating the updates to the Flash application. Is the XMLSocket the way to go here, or is there another class of objects that I’m missing?

Thanks for your help!

2

Whoo hoo!

I just figured it out.

As I expected, Flash needs to see the Null character to trigger the onLoad event. My VB skillz aren’t that hot, but after a bit of research I discovered the vbNullChar. I appended that to the data that I was sending out to Flash and now the onLoad event triggers.

Booyah.