Writing to a file

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:06:32 GMT

hi everyone,

I have a file that only contains a number in it (invoice number). Every time someone submits a form, it should increase the value of the number in the file by one.

It's my understanding that the file should be "locked" while it is being written to, so it does not give a duplicate amount if two people submit at the same time. Upon updating the file, it would then unlock the file, so it could then be written to by the next transaction.

The file would exist in the same folder as the form.

That's just my speculation as to how I think it should work. Basically, Open file, Lock file, write to file, unlock file.

Does anyone know of any tutorials that would show how to do this?

Thanks!

Fundraising Thermometer

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:46:18 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I'm fairly new to flash and am working in Flash CS5.

We found a fundraising thermometer that people liked, so I thought I'd give flash a shot and see if I could duplicate it. It's a horizontal bar that expands to the percentage of funds raised which it would read from a file (text or CSV).

Anyways, I did the basics and created the movie (motion tween) to make the bar go from zero to 100% (each frame being 1%).

Now comes for the hard work. How would I go about connecting to a file to read a number and get that bar to stop when it reaches that number (Frame)?

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Writing to a file

Fundraising Thermometer