Issue relating to updateData.

[GKFC]

Hi,

I have a Flash application that contains a number of variables on the _root level of my main .swf. My application has a volume control (which a user can increase or decrease), and so one of the variables stores how "loudly" the sound should be played. Code which sets it is similar to the following:

// set volume variable
FlashPlayer.setVariable("control.volume.vol", vol);

// play the submovie
pla.bindData("control.volume");
pla.updateData(true);

pla.targetPlay(pla.control.volume);

However, some time after this I call another SWFKit function which binds a number of OTHER variables to a different pla object using the following code:

var pla = new FlashPlayer;

//bind the variables between flash and SWFkit
pla.bindData("_root.link", "_root.name");

//collects variable values from flash
pla.updateData(true);
.
.
.
// set the variables in Flash
pla._root.link = whatever;
pla.updateData(false);

As soon as the pla.updateData(false) is invoked, the variable storing the volume is "cleared", and the sound is suddenly played as loudly as possible....

It looks like pla.updateData(false); might be deleting any variable entries that are not explicitly bound to the pla object before making the call?

I don't use setVariable here as there seemed to be a timing issue between setting the variable and Flash actually receiving it.

Any ideas would be great.

Cheers,

G.

[SWFKit]

The "bindData" method won't override the bound variables. When calling the second updateData method, you get three bound variables, "control.volume", "_root.link" and "_root.name". The method will update all of them.

You can call the "unbindData" method to avoid the problem. In fact, you don't need to bind a component or movie clip. I think you can do like this

pla.targetPlay("_root.control.volume");

The value of a component or a movie clip is just its name. E.g., a button named "btn" in _root, its value is "_level0.btn", so you don't need to bind it and call "updateData" to get its value.