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Is it possible to create animation with Ethernet daita input?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 13:29:29 GMT

I have a live data coming in from a real time device throught ethernet, i have to create a animation out of this data .

Is it possible to achive this in flash CC.

Multiuser Server

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:45:46 GMT

Version 3 of the Multiuser Server now supports 2000 simultaneous user sessions, as well as the faster UDP protocol in addition to TCP.

Director multiuser server

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:35:43 GMT

Here's a helpful page I found about the multiuser server: http://www.adobe.com/products/director/multiuser/

Duplicate userID in P2P movie

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 03:44:51 GMT

I am using the multiuser xtra to create a host movie. When a client connects using the same userID as another client that is already connected, the first user is disconnected. I want to block a duplicate userID form connecting but the odd thing is that the initial userID gets disconnected even before the WaitForNetConnection handler returns true or false for the second userID.

When the connection request comes in I was expecting to be able to check if the userID was already in use, and if it was then deny the second connection. However like I said, the initial conneciton seems to get broken the instant another conneciton request with the same userID comes in.

Does anyone have any experience or suggestions for this?

Playing shockwave movies with linked director files

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:00:26 GMT

I created a bunch of director files with the course content for my class. All can be accessed from a contents file. When I created an html contents file on my desktop (in the same folder as the linked director files), the contents pages would open in shockwave in my browser (both Firefox and Safari) and then by clicking on a link other director filew would open and play. However, when all these files were place on our server (in the same folder), only the contents pages would open and we get an error message saying the dircto files cannot be opened. I think this means it sees them, but can't open them.

Help!

Script Size

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:55:38 GMT

Shockwave Multiuser Server 3.0
Why a script can't have more than 430kb ? If the script have 431kb, it crash the server.

Local vs Internet IP, MU doesn't know

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:30:23 GMT

Dear All,

I am using a wireless network at home which also has a fixed internet IP. On the network the local IP for the SQL server is something like 198.162.X.X. My internet fixed IP is something completely different.

When I try to connect through the director application (computer is part of the local network) to the MU server (computer also part of the local network) and I insert the local IP of 198.162.X.X Director cannot find the MU. I am guessing is because it is trying to find that IP over the internet instead on my local network?

Anyone has any experience on how to fix this and how in general to make Director look for local network IPs because checking the internet IPs?

THANK YOU all for any feedback.
Alex

Where can i download Director 8 shockwave studio (Trial or full)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:12:37 GMT

I cannot find director 8 shockwave studio software download anywhere....i searched everywhere ;( .... i got 8.5 trial but i need the older version 8.0.... can someone give me a download link...i also got activation code...is there a website to download director 8 by giving them activation code....plz help me

control when a client is disconnected

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:26:20 GMT

Hello:
I am developing a MUS client/server application and I need to know when a client disconnect how to detect and delete from my list in the Server application.

I get "ConnectionProblem" only when the MUS is not run but not when a client disconnect.

Thank you very much.

To know about Multiuser Server

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:10:35 GMT

Hello:

I only need to know (to insure myself ) that MUS can make this:

connect over 70 PC's with Windows XP

I need to make an applcation with a program control (1 PC) and client program (70 PCs) for a system voting. Aplication control send a message to 70 PCs to vote then PCs send their response and the Control App receive data and show results.

Is MUS stable and robust for this kind of applications?

The connection with PC's must be about 6 hours in line.

What things must I control?

many thanks.

poppy.macromedia.com does not exist

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:48:41 GMT

I'm interested in multiuser samples this url look likes a good one but does not exist.

http://poppy.macromedia.com/multiuser/openlingo.htm

Can you tell how to connect to that url and /or some more?

thank you very much

MUS game help

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:47:29 GMT

Hey everyone. im currently on my summer break from college, and when i go back i will be attempting to create a small multiplayer game, say for the sake of argument, upto 4 players. I will be using Director (version 10) to create the game. I have very limited knowledge with the software, but ive picked up alot in the short time that i have used it. What i want to do now with my free time is learn abit about the multiplayer codeing so when i go back i wont have to rely on my lecturer too much. My question is would the Multiuser server 3.0 be sufficient enough to allow easy communication between the clients? if not could you reccomend anything else? and if so, could you possibly show me some tutorials and how to guides. Every search i come up with seems to be for flash or action script, which im not atall familar with.

Thanks for your time.

Collaboration Server Software?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:19:21 GMT

As a solution provider company, using a multi-user environment, collaboration is of course important. Allowing 'users' to see and text/chat with eachother is fundimental in a 3D environment.

Using Director 11.5 for the first time to create a 3D web-based environment, having control/ownership of the collaborative server software, so it can be deployed with the environment, and or, allowing your userbase use of your own collaborative server, I am confused how this is implimented in Director 11.5.

Our direction is to use a XMPP deployable server access to our userbase, or our own inhouse C based collaborative software. This controls 'Instances' of the environment to control the amount of users in an environment, and text/chat collaboration within each Instance, amongst other forms of functionality.

My question is... can we use our own collaborative server software, that meets the api's of Director for interactivity between instances of the environments, and control of those environments, for say password/username entry into those instances? Or are we bound to use only a bespoke collaboration system provided by Adobe/Director?

MPG player in director shell -- are there problems?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:00:42 GMT

I am looking for info on using an mpg player in a director shell and if there are problems associated with it.

Currently we are using an flv player that pulls movies from a server. However the scroll bar on the player does not work, it locks up and once a movie finishes playing you cannot hit the play button to play again. We have to reload the movie in order to replay.

What I'd like to know is if anyone is using an mpg player in a director shell that is downloading movies from a server or cd/dvd and if the pause/stop and play buttons all work fine, if the scroll bar works fine and if when the movie finishes you can hit the play button again and it will restart.

Or if there are problems using an mpg player also?

Any help/comments would be helpful.

Director we are usings is the one before the latest version and cs3 flash player.

Thanks.

director programmer...london england

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:32:45 GMT

looking for a director programmer in central london for a specific movie rewrite and update. pls contact greg@outer-holdings.co.uk urgently

multiplayer game question

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:00:28 GMT

Im using Director 11
Is Shockwave/Nebulae Multiuser Server the only way to communicate between 2 client applications ?
Are there any other ways to communicate between applications directly ?

Im interested in any communication that can be used to create a real-time based multiplayer game.

Multiuser Samples

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:54:38 GMT

Hello All Of Director Users!
Can you give me the examples of how to use the Adobe Director 11 Multiuser Xtra?

Thanks

Shockwave multiuser game

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:03:49 GMT

I am looking at developing an online multiuser 3d games using shockwave technology. Planning to user Director with Shockwave Multi user server. But little worried on Adobe withdrawn support on SMUS. Should I use Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5 instead? Or is it fine to go with Director 11 and SMUS 3.0? Any help?

WaitForNetConnection

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:31:07 GMT

Movie A is waiting for net connections
Movie B tries to connect to Movie A
Movie A decides not to accept the connection (bad password, banned
userID, etc) so it's WaitForNetConnection handler returns False instead
of True.

From what I can tell, no message is sent to Movie B, it justs seems to
sit idle waiting for an answer. Is this correct?

I would like Movie B to inform the user that the connection was rejected
and why. The only way I can think of doing it is for Movie A to actually
accept the connection request, send a message that the password was bad,
then have Movie A break the connection.

Is there a better way?

Trying to understand

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:04:55 GMT

While working with the MUS xtra I constantly encounter a slightly
annoying occurrence and I hope to gain a bit more insight about it.

I create an instance of the MUS xtra and assign a reference for it to a
global variable. I then use the WaitForNetConnection, passing a specific
port number that I want to use.

As I am developing, I stop the movie to work on some part of the code. I
then restart the movie, running the script that instantiates the Xtra again.

I then immediately see a "WaitForNetConnection" message come in:

[#errorCode: -2147216214, #recipients: ["Host"], #senderID: "System",
#subject: "WaitForNetConnection", #content: <Void>, #timeStamp: 0]

Typically you only see this message come in when another instance is
trying to connect via ConnectToNetServer, and the #content normally
shows the username, password, and movie string instead of being void.

This only happens after the first time I call WaitForNetCOnnection on
the same port. In a published piece, this would never happen. But as I
am developing it happens a lot. It really doesn't stop anything from
working either. I just want to understand.

Destroying the instance (by setting variable to 0) doesn't change
anything. It seems like once a movie opens a connection on a port, that
port remains open until the movie is closed.

So if I understand, the first time WaitForNetConnection is called, the
Xtra opens the port if the port is not in use. The next time it sees the
port open and passes the message on to the WaitForNetConnection handler
I have set up regardless of where it is coming from. Is this right?

MUS Xtra & D11

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:23:27 GMT

Has anyone tried the MUS Xtra (just the Xtra, not the server) with
Director 11? Does it work? Any issues?

Running a game projector from the network, slow loading

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 18 May 2008 14:40:55 GMT

Dear All,

I have an MU server that also contains the projector files on its hard drive (projector1.exe and so on). I login on another machine on the network (wireless network) and run the projectors remotely (//MUserver/games/projector1.exe)

The projectors have all the linked casts included in the exe (graphics and so on) and the casts are set to preload in memory before frame 1.

When I run the projector from the workstation it starts ok but when is time to load some graphic files from one of the casts it takes something like 3-5 seconds.

My question is, does the workstation copy the entire exe in memory from the remote server before running it? If so it should load the graphics before frame 1 and not during the game? is there any way to force the projector to be put into the workstation's memory to avoid this dealy? Any ideas/suggestions greatly appreciated.

Thank you

P.S: I have multiple workstations running at once (each one has its own unique projector)

weather forecast...i director site

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:20:48 GMT

hello , do u know how i can put an online weather forecast in a director project ?
I mean something like this http://morrill.isu.greentouchscreen.com/
If u see that site u can understand what exactly i need...look at the top and right of the site.

thank u and sorry for my English ,
George from Greece

Multiuser server and Unicode

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:35:02 GMT

Hi All - has MUS been updated to be Unicode compatible?

Rgs,
Ziggi

[Announcement] Directorforum.com launched

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:08:02 GMT

Hi folks,

after 5 years of running the german Director User Group
on www.directorforum.de we decided to launch the english
site http://www.directorforum.com yesterday.

Why?
I've been thinking a while about how to get Director a bit
more into public attention. I strongly believe that we all
can get a lot of this done on our own by aggregating information
in one place ... and show the best of what can be done with
Director / Shockwave.

What?
Directorforum.com is a strong community forum system with a bunch
of features waiting to be used. Apart from being a forum, the
first strong additional feature is its ability to collect the
newest information from the world of Director via RSS-Feeds,
Usenet or mailing lists.
If you visit www.directorforum.com, you'll see a Direct-L section
where the mailing list is mirrored (as from now on). You will also
see a "Director RSS Feeds" section, where all Director related
Blogs and Feeds from Adobe, MXNA and Valentina Xtra are aggregated.
You know other sources to be aggregated there?
Let me know, I'll add it.
This is a great way for Xtras developers to keep the community up
to date. Create your own Blog or Newsfeed and pass me the URL.
It's that easy. :)

What else?
Directorforum is an official Adobe User Group and it is a
non-profit project run by me. Why do I note that here?
Because the website is mine, I can decide what is possible
and what isn't.
One of my decissions is, that I will give the large region
where you currently see this lame sky to anybody who wants
to promote his Director work, his new Xtra, his newest game
for free. Yes folks. It's for FREE. Advertise yourself and
Shockwave/Director. You want to create a banner? You want
to provide a video? Any other ideas to show your stuff?
Just let me know. Everything is possible.
And ... don't miss the Director Showroom.
Any of you can get mentioned there, and it doesn't cost
you a cent. It's just about collecting compelling content
and showing it to the public.

And now?
Feel free to visit http://www.directorforum.com and register to get
write access. Let me know, what you think. Share your ideas
for improvements. :)

Cheers,
Martin

shockwave from a movie the director (8.5) with combobox

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:35:42 GMT

Hello: I want to create a shockwave from a movie the director (8.5) with combobox (activex microsoft). Is it possible this somehow?.
Automatic translation of Spanish. I sit(feel) it but Englishman does not speak himself.
Thanks.
Español: Quiero exportar una pelicula con un combobox control activex de (director 8.5) a shockwave para incluirlo en la web. Me da un error: no se ha encontrado xtra activex o no se ha inicializado bien.
Gracias

Save user text input in Shockwave

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:29:30 GMT

Hi, I am trying to capture the user's keyboard input into a field which is tied to the customers account #. Is this possible in Shockwave. I would like to the input to be stored in an external cast.

Thanks for your advice - Brian in Nebraska

New Playback Error

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:26:03 GMT

I have recently been having trouble with a shockwave movie that I have posted on the web. I have been encountering an error message that reads:
“This Shockwave movie has errors that have caused playback problems. Please contact the author of this content regarding this problem. Shockwave is unable to continue”.
The problem is that I have had this movie posted for several years now and I have never had this issue with it before, the file has not been modified in any way. Furthermore the error seems to come and go periodically. The error message will appear whenever you attempt to access the Shockwave movie for several hours but if you wait and revisit the site the error will disappear and the Shockwave movie will load without any issues. I have tried recompiling the original .drc file in Director however I cannot find any obvious errors in the code. I have encountered this issue on a windows Vista machine using both Firefox 2.0 and IE 7. I noticed that there has recently been an update to Shockwave player and I am wondering if this has anything to do with my problem. Has anyone else been encountering issues similar to this? Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. The Shockwave file is posted at:
http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~ITL/InformationLiteracy/WebPages/WritingAPA.htm

Checking connection status

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 06:32:53 GMT

Hi!

Is it possible to get the current status of the connection(e.g socket established, disconnected, etc)?
I need this stuff in order to check if connection was dropped by the server.

Thanks in advance.

Is it possible to send a text message using the UDP protocol?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:25:22 GMT

Support doc
http://www.adobe.com/support/director/multiuser/using_udp/using_udp02.html
says to use the following format with connectToNetServer:
errCode = gMultiuserInstance.connectToNetServer([#remoteAddress:
"chatServer.myCompany.com", #logonInfo: [#userID: "Bob", #password:
"MySecret", #movieID: "Tech Chat"], #mode: #smus, #localUDPPort: 1627,
#localAddress: "123.45.67.89", #remoteTCPPort: 1626])

But if I change the mode to #text, it still sends out messages as smus.
In fact, if I leave out the UDP parameters altogether but still use the
list parameters for connectToNetServer, it still always sends as smus.

Sends as smus:
errCode = gMultiuserInstance.connectToNetServer([#remoteAddress:
"chatServer.myCompany.com", #logonInfo: [#userID: "Bob", #password:
"MySecret", #movieID: "Tech Chat"], #mode: #text, #localUDPPort: 1627,
#localAddress: "123.45.67.89", #remoteTCPPort: 1626])

Sends as smus:
errCode = gMultiuserInstance.connectToNetServer([#remoteAddress:
"chatServer.myCompany.com", #logonInfo: [#userID: "Bob", #password:
"MySecret", #movieID: "Tech Chat"], #mode: #text])

Only the string parameter method can be made to send text messages.
Sends as text:
errCode = gMultiuserInstance.connectToNetServer("Bob", "MySecret",
"chatServer.myCompany.com", 1626, "Tech Chat", 1)

Am I missing something? Is this a known issue? Anyone have a work around?

-Jeremy

Is It Possbible To Monitor Any Given TCP Port In Director!

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:40:00 GMT

Hi

Using Director MX 2004 under WinXP Pro.

Does anyone know if it's possible to use WaitForNetConnection to monitor any given TCP port where the incoming data could be anything, but most certainly isn't from another Director application, but might be from say a mail server, telnet, an FTP server responding on the specified port, or whatever...!

I've not had a lot of success using WaitForNetConnection to do this... (Code below).

If WaitForNetConnection cannot be used to monitor a TCP port, does anyone know if there are any xtras commercial or otherwise that will do this?

Many Thanks
TW.

Code:

gMuiR.setNetMessageHandler(#xFTPHandlerIn, script "CallBacksIn")
gMuiR.setNetBufferLimits( 128 * 1024, 512 * 1024, 250 )

[...]

on FTPWaitForConnection n, p
-- n = IpAddress of FTP Server in "x.x.x.x" format, p = integer, port no
global gMuiR, svIPAdr
if gMuiR.WaitForNetConnection( svIPAdr, p, 4) = 0 then
put "Waiting For Net Connection On Port : " & p
r = 0
else
put "Error On Wait For Net Connection."
r = 1
end if
return r
end

When I connect to the specified port using telnet or whatever, the callback handler returns error -2147216214 (the hugely informative "connection problem"...).

UDP messages with a router

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:47:15 GMT

Hey all,

I've written a test movie to check the viability of running a MUS app on a server behind both a standard router and a firewall. Sadly, my attempts have failed - the TCP messages are being forwarded just fine, yet the USP messages are being stopped dead in their tracks at the firewall.

I'm convinced my port forwarding is the reason - sadly, Director's poor documentation doesn't specifically say the port range it uses, only the "starting" port being 1627 for UDP. I've tried port forwarding 1626 (TCP) all the way up to 1647 with no luck so far.

From searching on this newsgroup I get the feeling that people have been able to get this working. Can anyone provide some insight on this?

Thanks in advance.

Director network bug: Save As

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:40:55 GMT

We have Director MX 2004 installed over an Apple network, and have one major problem: when a user attempts to SAVE AS, Director trashes the file completely. When we previously used Netware servers for user id authentication and storage this problem didn’t exist. It has arisen since we switched to an Xserve Apple server connected to a Storevault storage system, and appears to be a bug in Director – as it is ONLY Director that has this problem. There is no such problem with any other application, including Adobe products such as Flash and Photoshop which also use temporary files.

Is this a known bug – and what can be done about it? Even if we could disable the Save As option in Director, users would lose all their work if they started from a file on a drive for which they have no write permissions.

Director repeated crashing

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:00:17 GMT

Hi guys and gals,
I've been working on a director project for about a month ... no problems. However for last two days director crashes every time (without fail) when I drag a cast member between casts, in fact if I move any cast member at all. It also crashes if I select a cast member and click on 'find in score'.
Is there a reason for this... and... is there a solution?
This isn't a life or death problem but any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Have a nice day!

Note: I'm using Director MX2004 on a G5 Mac.

Shockwave Multiuser Server Apps

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:56:56 GMT

This is a problem that has been haunting me for over a year now and I just can't figure it out.. This applies to both Shockwave (.dcr) files compiled in version 8.5, MX9, and MX 2004 along with projectors compiled with MX 2004..

How am I supposed to exit the projector so that the multiuser xtra doesn't cause a crash? I have had trouble with it with both simple and complex multiuser applications which use the 'netMessageHandler' and 'SendtNetMessage' commands of the Multiuser instance.
Previous to MX 2004, I had no problem exiting the projectors by doing a simply cleanup involving setting the multiuser instance (in this case, sConnect) to 0 and it exited like a charm. However, in MX 2004, or in a Shockwave movie from any version of Director 8.5+ I get something of a hang & crash (Firefox says the shockwave program did something illegal and needed to quit and then crashed, IE7 just crashes..) when the user tries to exit after having connected to the server.

In order to rectify the problem I attempted to clear out all references to a netMessageHandler by setting them to 0 (I use #DefaultMessageHandler in my movies) and I have tried doing things like setting the multiuser instance to VOID and 0 and reinitializing it as a new multiuser instance and nothing seems to make a difference..

Has anyone got any suggestions or comments? Or a sample movie that connects to a server, sends a message, and then exits when the user closes the window so that I can work from there with the coding.

Thanks so much for your help,
Johnathon

Making a multiuser game running 'realtime'

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:37:19 GMT

I've been testing Multiuser server for few weeks. Sadly, I saw an article saying Adobe discontinued developing it and recommend users to move to Flash Media Server. Anyway, I've been studying MUS for some time now and trying to make a multiuser game and there I found a problem.

It is a fishing game. The idea is that two players will move their baits on screen and catch fishes, on separate computers. Problem is, I had a bad time getting those baits to move in acceptable speed, which others may say 'realtime'.
My script works like this:
1. If a player moves mouse pointer, the app sends information of mouseLoc to server
2. A server-side script catches the info and sends back to All-Users
3. The bait then moves accordingly
4. The bait must have finished moving before the app sends new information to server

I was wondering whether I'm doing it right, cos my baits moves very slow. Seems like it keeps sending info to server which ends up a huge array of jobs queued in my app.

Is there a better way in doing this?
I really need help, I haven't done anything like this before. Thank you in advance.

Wait it gets better

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:30:12 GMT

Is there a UPnP xtra available today?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:32:17 GMT

I know there is at least one developer working on this, but I was
wondering if there was an xtra or alternative solution currently
available that would allow a Director movie to automatically forward
ports on a UPnP router as needed.

I have a P2P game that requires users to do this manually (if they have
a NAT address). It's no surprise that this is beyond the ability of
the average person. It would be very nice to be able to handle this
without the user having to do it.

Thanks.

Sending email with the MUS xtra

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:00:02 GMT

I downloaded the smtp example and tried to run it. According to the
response field in the example, every command was successfully sent with
no errors returned. I tried to send a test email from one email account
to another, but the mail gets returned to my sender email address. The
returned email includes the following error information.

Final-Recipient: rfc822; <myemailaddress@myISP.com>
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.0 MAIL FROM: <myemailaddress@myISP.com> 550 REPLY:
550_invalid_format_[f]_-_see_RFC2822
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; Permanent Failure: Other address status

I am able to manually send an email by telnet to my ISP's mail server
and issuing the SMTP commands from a command line, so I know it is
possible. But I can not tell where the director example is failing.

Any help is appreciated.

Multiuser Xtra Javascript coding

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:00:18 GMT

Hi everyone,

First off, does anybody here use javascript instead of lingo when coding their director scripts? Specifically ones that incorporate the Multiuser Xtra? I get this feeling that I'm alone here with all the lack of support and examples on the internet regarding this.

Now my main problem - there seems to be a bug in the Multiuser Xtra library, since doing the following causes an error:

var errText = connection.getNetErrorString(-2147216214);

That should return a string "No current connection". However I get a error dialog popping up saying "integer expected", stating that the value that I'm passing is -2147216214.000, a float. Using parseInt() to force the number to an integer doesn't work at all. This is not normal for Javascript, or Director.

Has anyone encountered this? Does anybody have a work around?

Thanks in advance!

Sending messages to multiple clients

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:24:42 GMT

In a p2p application, when a message is being sent to multiple clients,
how does the instance performing the server function accomplish this?
Specifically, if the message is a large amount of data broken into
multiple packets, does it send all packets to client 1, then all packets
to client 2, etc? Or does it send packet 1 to all clients, then packet 2
to all clients, etc?

TCP/IP Buffer

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:07:04 GMT

When you create an instance of the MUS xtra and define a buffer size, is
the same buffer used for both sending and receiving data?

If so, when you set a buffer size of say 1k, and a client is sending a
1k message at the same time it is receiving a 1k message, what happens?

Would you be able to prevent such bottlenecks by creating 2 instance of
the MUS xtra, and using 1 for sending and the other for receiving?

Can't run MUS Sample Movie: Blackjack

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:38:04 GMT

Hello all,

I'm beginning my adventure in client/server scripting - and I've already hit a stumbling block. I managed to find the Backjack sample online (from download.macromedia.com) but the sample errors out on "Xtra not found" "Multiuser".

I went to the file menu Modify > Movie > Xtras... and it looked like it had to download the x32 and it put it in the Shockwave 10 system directory on my Windows machine. However it is still not working.

Does anyone know the right place where the xtra file should be for this to work? Or how do I tell it to point to the profile file location?

Thanks in advance!

Outgoing Messages

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:28:09 GMT

Alright well I have a game here that has already been made and I wanted to add an encryption to all the outgoing subject and contents, the function to encrypt the strings is already made and working called encryptStr()

Now my question, is there a way i can intercept the outgoing messages without having to go to EVERY single sendNetMessage instance adding the encryptStr function there...? Because that seems to be a pain in the butt and a complete waste of time, there are over 400 sendNetMessage instances and I don't want to do a 'Find Text' for all of them =P =P

Thank you for your help!

Size Matters?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:30:58 GMT

I am setting up an instance of the MUS xtra with a 2000K buffer (max
message size), but I can't seem to send an image that large.

Using the size property of a bitmap cast member, it seems to fail
somewhere around 400K. Does the size property really match the size of
the media property (it is the media of a member that gets sent)>

Is this efficient?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:55:33 GMT

I have a p2p game using the MUS xtra. There is a server application that
one player runs, and then all players connect to the server. A player
can send images to other players. When a player sends an image to other
players it first goes to the server, which distributes it to some or all
of the other clients.

Now, take the example of a player (one that is not running the server)
sending an image to the player that is running the server. The server
(which has a list of all connected users) sends the image out to the IP
address of each player. Of course this would include the person running
the server.

I am trying to understand, from a network perspective what happens in
the case of the person running the server. The server is sending the
image to an IP that is really the same one it is on. Is the server smart
enough to recognize this? Or does it just send it out, going out to the
users ISP which then routes it back to be received by the client?

If this is the case, it would seem to be somewhat inefficient. Could I
improve it in any way?

sendNetMessage question

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:07:49 GMT

I have a p2p game using the MUS xtra. There is a server application that
one player runs, and then all players connect to the server. After some
trial and error I have discovered that if one client sends a message
specifically to a connected user, the message is routed by the sever,
but the message is not handled by the server. The message gets handled
by the xtra instance on the recipients machine.

In some cases I want the instance running on the server to handle the
message, so the recipient of the message was 'system'. For some reason I
thought that there was something special about 'system', but this turns
not to be the case. If I send a message to "scoobydoo" (and scoobydoo is
not a connected user) the message is handled by the server.

Everything works as I need it too, but is this how I should be doing it?
Is there way of correctly identifying that the message should be handled
by the servers instance? Is it OK to rely on this 'default' behavior?

showing progress of transfer

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:16:09 GMT

I have a p2p game. One person runs the server, and everyone connects to
the server with a client. Players can send images to each other. I want
the client to recognize when it is being sent an image and show the
progress of the transfer (standard % complete type of indicator).

The clients make 2 connections to the server (ie 2 instances of the
xtra). One is used to send/receive various messages, the other to
send/receive images. I think I can use this to accomplish what I want.
Just hoping someone might let me know if I am going down the wrong path.

My idea is that when one client wants to send an image to the others, it
notifies the other clients telling them how large the image is. Then it
periodically uses getNetOutgoingBytes() to see how many bytes are left
in the outgoing message buffer, so that it can update the client
(through the other connection) as to the progress.

Will this work? Thanks.

communication between PC's

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:16:29 GMT

I'd like to send orders from a Director Movie running in my computer to a Director Movie running in another computer, using network cable. I don't know if this problem relieves from multiuser, i'd like e simple solution. Who cans help me ? Sorry for my english...
Oh, I had my solution in the forum "lingo". How can I delete this message ?

Network peer-2-peer movie question

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:48:40 GMT

I am using the MUS xtra to make a peer-2-peer game (not using the Shockwave MUS). I have a server projector and a client projector. One player runs the server projector, then everyone runs the client application (including the person running the server). So there are times when the server is sending messages to a client IP address that just happens to be the IP address of the computer that the server is running on.

I would like to understand the 'route' that the message takes in this scenario. Does it stay 'inside' the computer? Does it leave the computer, go to some outside router only to be send back? If so, does this create unneccesary traffic? Would it be better to have the server recognize this scenario and handle it some other way?

TIA