Flash MX 2004 Games : Art to ActionScript

Flash MX 2004 Games
In line 17 we create a remote ‘SharedObject’. This is the principal method for maintaining shared
data across a network. The SharedObject resides on the server, but the client can get and set the
data for it. When you create a remote shared object you pass the name of the data, the URI for
the connection object, which is a member variable for the object, and a flag that governs the
persistence for the data. By default, the shared object is not persistent on the client or server; that
is, when all clients close their connections to the shared object, it is deleted. To create a shared
object that is saved locally or on the server, you need to pass a value for persistence. If the default
is ‘null’ or ‘false’ then no data is saved at either the server or the client. If you pass ‘true’ then the
data is saved on the server. The final option is to pass a path. In this case the data is saved on the
client and the server.
1 #include "NetDebug.as"
2
3 avatar = null;
4
5 // Open connection to the server
6 client_nc = new NetConnection();
7
8 // Show connection status in output window
9 client_nc.onStatus = function(info) {
10 trace("Level: " + info.level + newline + "Code: " + info.code);
11 };
12
13 // Connect to the application
14 client_nc.connect("rtmp:/multiuser/room_01");
15
16 // Create a remote shared object
17 avatars_so = SharedObject.getRemote("avatars", client_nc.uri, false);
18
19 if (avatars_so.data.used1){
20 avatar1.gotoAndStop(3);
21 }else{
22 avatars_so.data.name1 = "";
23 }
24
...
49 // Update avatar positions when another participant moves
50 avatars_so.onSync = function(list) {
51 avatar1._x = avatars_so.data.x1;
52 avatar1._y = avatars_so.data.y1;
53 avatar1.name = avatars_so.data.name1;
54 avatar2._x = avatars_so.data.x2;
55 avatar2._y = avatars_so.data.y2;
56 avatar2.name = avatars_so.data.name2;
57 avatar3._x = avatars_so.data.x3;
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