chambaz

A lot of people have posted similar threads but Im still having trouble. Ive managed to get flashserver to send data to Max but its sending data the other way thats causing me stress!

All I want to do is control movie clips from within Max. I used the code from the flashserver instructions,

doc = doc.substr(0, doc.length - 1); // chop off ';' at the end 

argv = doc.split(" "); // split at spaces and convert to array 

argc = argv.length; // get number of elements in array 

for(i = 0; i < argc; i++) // loop through all arguments 

clip = argv[0]; // get name of MovieClip 

frame = argv[1]; // get the frame number 

Iv then sent the message "clip1 2" to flashserver (clip1 being my movie clip name and 2 being the frame i want to play from) that gave me an error message telling me flashserver couldnt undertand. Ive also tried sending the message broadcast clip1 2, this didnt do anything. Im probably missing something really small but any help would be much appreciated.

function onMaxData(doc) 
{ 
argv = []; // create a new array 
doc = doc.substr(0, doc.length - 1);    // chop off ';' at the end 
argv = doc.split(" "); // split at spaces and convert to array 
argc = argv.length; // get number of elements in array 
for(i = 0; i < argc; i++)   // loop through all arguments 
{ 
msg += "argument "+ i +" is "+ argv[i]; 
}
clip = argv[0]; // get name of MovieClip 
frame = argv[1]; // get the frame number 
_root[clip].gotoAndPlay(frame); 
} 

flashserver

Am 08.02.2008 um 00:31 schrieb Adam Chambers:

> Iv then sent the message "clip1 2" to flashserver (clip1 being my 

> movie clip name and 2 being the frame i want to play from) that 

> gave me an error message telling me flashserver couldnt undertand.

The message "clip1 2" won't do anything, it has to be "send

> Ive also tried sending the message broadcast clip1 2, this didnt do 

This means that there is something wrong in your Flash code. I'd 

advise you to print the received data to a text field in Flash to see 

whether it gets through. If that looks ok print the movie frame name 

and frame number you're extracting from the array.... that's the 

normal way how to solve problems. In the end you probably just have 

something wrong with your movie clip1. Try setting up a button in 

Flash that when clicked does the same thing and then investigate what 

the difference is between that button and the command sent from Max.

PS: don't send me Flash files, I won't fix them for you

> Iv then sent the message "clip1 2" to flashserver (clip1 being my  
> movie clip name and 2 being the frame i want to play from) that  
> gave me an error message telling me flashserver couldnt undertand.

The message "clip1 2" won't do anything, it has to be "send
number> clip1 2".

> Ive also tried sending the message broadcast clip1 2, this didnt do  
> anything.

This means that there is something wrong in your Flash code. I'd  
advise you to print the received data to a text field in Flash to see  
whether it gets through. If that looks ok print the movie frame name  
and frame number you're extracting from the array.... that's the  
normal way how to solve problems. In the end you probably just have  
something wrong with your movie clip1. Try setting up a button in  
Flash that when clicked does the same thing and then investigate what  
the difference is between that button and the command sent from Max.

PS: don't send me Flash files, I won't fix them for you


Ive got everything working now anyway. Really getting the hang of it. Im designing an interface in flash for my fft analyzer and mixing desk. Your object is great! ill send you the finished product once its done. I think im going to have to use 2 computers one for flash and one for max msp as it crashes quite a lot. Do you use this technique.

Am 12.02.2008 um 19:25 schrieb Adam Chambers:

> Ive got everything working now anyway. Really getting the hang of 

> it. Im designing an interface in flash for my fft analyzer and 

> mixing desk. Your object is great! ill send you the finished 

> product once its done. I think im going to have to use 2 computers 

> one for flash and one for max msp as it crashes quite a lot. Do you 

I usually get away with one machine in my projects, but it really 

depends on what you're doing. It's quite easy to flood Flash with too 

much data and first Flash will block, followed by flashserver 

blocking, followed by Max crashing. I can only recommend to use a 

polling meachnism, so that Flash signals Max when it wants new data. 

Thats much better than sending Flash too much data all the time that 

it can't handle. Flash is not threaded, so as long as it's buzy doing 

something else (graphic things most likely) it won't even look at the 

incoming data from Max and flashserver will return you the "client 

Always monitor the CPU usage of your Flash movie and then decide 

whether there's anything left to run Max/MSP on the same machine.

>
> cheers Olaf.
>
> Ive got everything working now anyway. Really getting the hang of  
> it. Im designing an interface in flash for my fft analyzer and  
> mixing desk. Your object is great! ill send you the finished  
> product once its done. I think im going to have to use 2 computers  
> one for flash and one for max msp as it crashes quite a lot. Do you  
> use this technique.

I usually get away with one machine in my projects, but it really  
depends on what you're doing. It's quite easy to flood Flash with too  
much data and first Flash will block, followed by flashserver  
blocking, followed by Max crashing. I can only recommend to use a  
polling meachnism, so that Flash signals Max when it wants new data.  
Thats much better than sending Flash too much data all the time that  
it can't handle. Flash is not threaded, so as long as it's buzy doing  
something else (graphic things most likely) it won't even look at the  
incoming data from Max and flashserver will return you the "client  
blocked xx milliseconds" warning.
Always monitor the CPU usage of your Flash movie and then decide  
whether there's anything left to run Max/MSP on the same machine.

FlashServer