[swfmill] Accessing frames in AS3

[Hudson Ansley]

the data size limit was from experience, not sure of the exact number.
Are you loading arbitrary AVM1 swfs or could you recompile them with
some added code?

On Nov 12, 2007 8:43 PM, Joel Poloney <jpoloney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Definitely an interesting idea. Do you have an example of what you did in
> the past? at least a high level over view? How big of a PITA is it? And will
> the data chunk be limiting at all? After a quick over view of the Flex 2
> docs for LocalConnection, I don't see the 32k limit in here anywhere. Where
> did you read about that?
>
> -- Joel
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> On Nov 12, 2007 2:25 PM, Hudson Ansley <hudsonansley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > You can communicate with an AVM1 swf loaded into an AVM2 swf through a
> > LocalConnection object. It is a PITA and the data chunk that can be
> > sent at one time is limited (something like 32k), but it does allow
> > back and forth. The big problem with this is you need code in your
> > AVM1 swf to connect to the LocalConnection object from the AVM2 swf.
> > To get around changing the AVM1 swf, you could create a AVM1 wrapper
> > swf that has the LocalConnection code in it that will be able to load
> > the target swf and act as a bridge between the two... I only have used
> > LocalConnection to communicate directly between the two VMs so far
> > because I was able to have all my AVM1 swfs recompiled with the
> > LocalConnection code, but I think the wrapper idea should work :-)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Hudson
> >
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