Actionscript :: Socket Events Not Firing
Sep 18, 2011
I'm writing a SWF that I'd like to communicate with a Java process via Sockets. This is usually quite easy with standard Sockets, but for some reason the events described in the Socket documentation aren't firing when all signs say they should be.
On the Java side, I've set up a ServerSocket that's listening on port 8080. Using netcat I've confirmed it works as designed.[code]...
When I run the resulting SWF, all I get is "Called connect!" on the stage, and none of the events ever fire. Even more strangely, when I investigate the communication from the ServerSocket on the Java end, it receives and accepts a connection. When I close the SWF the code calling my Server completes as normal -- meaning it was hanging on a connection made with my SWF.
I'm left with a few questions...
With the exception of the event handlers, this is the end of control for my code (after the connection is established, we just wait for events and render them appropriately). Could the entire program be "terminating," and I'm just misunderstood about the Runtime model?Are there visibilty/naming requirements for the callbacks for them to be called? They're all public, but could it be that the Runtime isn't seeing them?Are there any gotchas with AS3 Socket programming? I kept thinking this was an issue of sandboxing, etc., but the SECURITY_ERROR didn't fire either.
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