LocalConnection works when it should fail

[theErez]

Hi,

in my page i have a main swf, which should check the existence of a second swf - if its missing, the main swf should display a certain message to the user, otherwise it should work as planned.

i thought to achieve this by using LocalConnection - the main swf is set as the sending swf, and it should call a certain function on the other swf.  i was thinking that if the second swf is missing, the local connection would fail - either throw an error or its STATUS event listener would receive an 'error' message.

if you think as i did - well think again.  no error was thrown and the listener got a 'status' message, although there's nobody to handle the LocalConnection 'send' method.

what did i miss?  or is there a better way to achieve my goal?

cheers,

eRez

[kglad]

show your localconnetion code (only) including your statusevent listener.

[theErez]

there you go:

protected function onEnterFrame(event:Event):void

        {

          removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onEnterFrame);

              ...

          var conn:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();

          conn.addEventListener(StatusEvent.STATUS,onLCStatus);

          conn.connect("toolbarCheck");

          conn.send("toolbarCheck","checkForToolbar");

}

private function onLCStatus(event:StatusEvent):void

{

      if (event.level == "error")

      {

          // display message

      }

      else

      {

         // keep on going...

      }

}

and as i mentioned - at this point, there isn't any other swf which handles this call

[kglad · Accepted solution]

use:

protected function onEnterFrame(event:Event):void

        {

          removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onEnterFrame);

              ...

          var conn:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();

          conn.addEventListener(StatusEvent.STATUS,onLCStatus);

          //conn.connect("toolbarCheck");

          conn.send("toolbarCheck","checkForToolbar");

}

private function onLCStatus(event:StatusEvent):void

{

      if (event.level == "error")

      {

          // display message

      }

      else

      {

         // keep on going...

      }

}