MACROMEDIA FLEX-FLEX ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference page 339

Line numbers are included for reference purposes. The sequence of events is described in the
following list:
•
The receiving SWF file prepares to receive commands on a connection named
The Flash Player resolves the name of this connection to
LocalConnection.connect()
•
The sending SWF file prepares to receive a reply on the LocalConnection object named
(line 67). It also specifies that it will accept commands only from SWF files at
"result"
mydomain.com (lines 51 to 53).
•
The sending SWF file invokes the
(line 68) and passes the following parameters: its superdomain, the name of the connection to
receive the reply (
"result"
•
The method (line 6) is invoked with the following values:
aSum
sender =
"mydomain.com:result"
then executes the following line of code:
this.send("mydomain.com:result", "aResult", (123 + 456));
•
The method (line 54) shows the value returned by
aResult
// The receiving SWF at http://www.mydomain.com/folder/movie.swf
// contains the following code
1 var aLocalConnection:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
2 aLocalConnection.allowDomain = function()
3 {
// Allow connections from any domain
4 return true;
5 }
6 aLocalConnection.aSum = function(sender, replyMethod, n1, n2)
7 {
8 this.send(sender, replyMethod, (n1 + n2));
9 }
10
11 aLocalConnection.connect("sum");
// The sending SWF at http://www.yourdomain.com/folder/movie.swf
// contains the following code
50 var lc:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
51 lc.allowDomain = function(aDomain) {
// Allow connections only from mydomain.com
52 return (aDomain == "mydomain.com");
53 }
54 lc.aResult = function(aParam) {
55 trace("The sum is " + aParam);
56 }
// determine our domain and see if we need to truncate it
57 var channelDomain:String = lc.domain();
58 if (getVersion() >= 7 && this.getSWFVersion() >= 7)
59 {
// split domain name into elements
).
method of a connection named
aSum
), and the values to be used by
,
replyMethod
"mydomain.com:sum"
"mydomain.com:sum"
(123 and 456).
aSum
= , = 123, and
"aResult" n1
(579).
aSum
LocalConnection.domain()
(line 11).
"sum"
(see
= 456. It
n2
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