[swx] How to make flash wait for xml to load before using it

[Herdiansah]

Hi Jake,

If you still need to load xml file you could use SWXml service  that  
will parsed your xml file and return to flash in SWX format.
Checkout about the SWXml on http://swxformat.org/155



Cheers,
Herdiansah
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On Mar 9, 2008, at 2:30 PM, ben wrote:

> Hi Jake,
>
> I think you're going about it a bit the wrong way. It's best if you  
> just instance a SWX object and specify your result handler. You  
> don't need a timer.
> The second thing i'm not sure either is why you want some XML? One  
> of the major advantage of SWX (in my humble opinion) is that you  
> don't have to deal with any daaaamn XML, and in particular parsing  
> it in AS2, which totally sucks. Do you really need XML? You can  
> send arrays of objects or nested objects back and forth with SWX.
>
> Here's a sample, most basic code to use a SWX service:
>
> import org.swxformat.SWX;
>
> var swx:SWX = new SWX();
> swx.gateway = "http://<path_to_your_swx_gateway";
> swx.encoding = "GET";
> swx.debug = true;
>
> var callParameters:Object =
> {
>     serviceClass: "YourService",
>     method: "serviceMethod",
>     args: [0],
>     result: [this, resultHandler],
>     timeout: [this, timeoutHandler],
>     fault: [this, faultHandler]
> }
>
> function resultHandler(event:Object)
> {
>     trace("result!");
> }
> function timeoutHandler(event:Object)
> {
>     trace("timeoutHandler!");
> }
> function faultHandler(event:Object)
> {
>     trace("faultHandler!");
> }
>
> swx.call(callParameters);
>
> stop();
>
> The object is created, given some result, timeout & fault event  
> handlers, then the call is made, then stop.
> When the result comes through, resultHandler is triggered, or fault  
> or timeout if any error occurred.
> Consult the docs for more details.
>
> Hope that helps. Good luck.
>
> Ben
> Down with XML!
>
> Jake Ketcheson wrote:
>>
>> Hey everybody,
>>
>> I've been having some problems trying to grab and parse xml coming  
>> back
>> to me from a custom php script.. I'm relatively new to Flash and  
>> Action
>> Scripting, so this may just be easily fixable..
>>
>> So my problem is I send off a request to my class from flash,  
>> which is
>> suppose to just return to me a simple xml string.. From there I  
>> want to
>> be able to parse the string out, and loop through the children to  
>> create
>> elements on the flash file..
>>
>> My actionscript is as follows:
>>
>> stop();
>> import mx.utils.Delegate;
>> System.security.allowDomain('*');
>> var checkLoadProgressInterval;
>> var openStores_xml
>> function preparexml(){
>>     dataHolder.serviceClass = "Store";
>>     dataHolder.method = "GetStoreHours";
>>
>>
>>     dataHolder.debug = true;
>>
>>        dataHolder.loadMovie("------(removed for confidentiality
>> reasons)", "GET");
>>     checkLoadProgressInterval = setInterval(this,  
>> "checkLoadProgress", 250);
>>
>>
>>
>> }
>> function checkLoadProgress()
>> {
>>     if (dataHolder.getBytesLoaded() > 24 &&  
>> (dataHolder.getBytesLoaded()
>> == dataHolder.getBytesTotal()))
>>    {
>>        clearInterval(checkLoadProgressInterval);
>>        resultHandler(dataHolder);
>>    }
>> }
>> function resultHandler(event:Object)
>> {
>>     // Load is complete.
>>
>>
>>     // Display the result.
>>     openStores_xml = event.result;
>>     test.text = openStores_xml;
>> }
>> function XMLopenStores() {
>>
>>
>>     stores = [];
>>     opens = [];
>>     openStores = openStores_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0];
>>     total = openStores.childNodes.length;
>>     for (i=0; i<total; i++) {
>>         stores[i] =
>> openStores.childNodes[i].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
>>
>>         opens[i] =
>> openStores.childNodes[i].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
>>
>>     }
>>
>> }
>> preparexml();
>> XMLopenStores();
>> trace(stores[1]);
>> trace(opens[1]);
>>
>> count = 1;
>>
>> storeBox0.num=0
>> while (count<total) {
>>     this.storeBox0.duplicateMovieClip("storeBox"+count, count);
>>     //this["storeBox"+count]._y = count*45+40
>>     this["storeBox"+count].num= count
>>     count += 1;
>>
>>
>> }
>>
>> Now the problem is I know its returning the right data, since my test
>> field gets filled with the xml coming back from the class.. But  
>> when it
>> comes down to the looping of the children from the xml in
>> XMLopenStores() I'm getting undefined errors from the trace().. Now I
>> assume this is because its going through the loop before the data is
>> actually loaded into the variable.. So how do I make it wait for that
>> variable to be full of data before using it? Or am I going about  
>> this in
>> an entirely incorrect way?
>>
>> Thanks for any and all help you guys could provide for me!
>>
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