Maximum size of data passed between Flash and SWFKit

[sbick]

What's the maximum size of data that can be sent to SWFKit from Flash and vice-versa using the FFish commands?

fscommand("FFish_Eval", "saveFile(\""+vFileName+"\",\""+ largeString +"\")");

I'm sending an XML object converted to a string to SWFKit so that it can be saved to a file chosen by the user. I can see the string becoming very large. I'm getting an error "This application has caused an error and will shut down" type coming from the SWFKit player when a large string is sent.

If there's such a limit, is there a better way to transfer the XML data into SWFKit from Flash and back into Flash when the user chooses and loads a new XML file?

Thanks,

Steve

[SWFKit]

Could you please send us the content of the xml file?

Passing strings by the fscommand could bring some problems. One problem is that the 'vfilename' string may contain slashes, e.g. c:\test.xml. When you passed it to swfkit as you did, swfkit got the call

saveFile("c:\test.xml", "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx");

It became an illegal file name. For the call should be

saveFile("c:\\test.xml", "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx");

The other problem is that the xml content may contain quotes, then the call passed to swfkit will cause problem. The crashing of SWFKit indicates that the compiler of swfkit cannot handle such a special call. So please send us the xml content, we will make it to be more robust, it will just return error.

To resolve the problem, please pass variable names to swfkit and use the FlashPlayer.setVariable method to get the content of the string. The attached sample shows how to do this. It has been tested with a 311K xml file and it works well.