trying to find alternative ways to read data

[ttdread]

I'm looking for help with a project I am working on for my company.

The project consist of:
1. An administrator stand-a-lone application that needs to save data to a file.
2. A flash based user app that reads the info saved by the admin stand-a-lone.

The user app will be on the company's local intranet. There is no php capabilities, so that is not an option. I am attempting to save an ini file with the admin stand-a-lone but the flash app will not read the values in the the ini file. It seems that on the flash end I can only save the ini file to my cache or cookies or something but the flash app will not open the original values. Is this not within the capabilities of the exported flash apps?

Programming all the info into the flash app is not an option because the info will be updated by several people and will change very often. I even thought of the Flash Text file extension but it seems to only work with a mouse action event listener and it would be too difficult to parse or search through the text file and relay info back to the flash app unlike the ini extension. I hope someone has clue to how this can be done because I keep trying to sell the idea to my company that Multimedia Fusion can be useful as a rapid development application but I keep falling short of being able to show that. Thanks

[Kimera]

I achieved what your after by using Moo for many years no using Lacewing, it's much, much, much, better than Moo in my opinion even though it has a bug or 2.

Set up the server side to store the data in a SQLite3 memory database, you will have much more speed than file based, and have it send the data to the flash client via a sub-channel. Works like a champ. If you want to use the ini you can but their is more power and speed in any sql solution if your dealing with a large amount of data.

On the server side use some form of FIFO for storing what needs to be saved on the server so that you can run through the added information in an orderly fashion. There are several but that do that kind of thing today but old habits are hard to break and I use a list box as I can save the FIFO data as a file in case of a crash on the server. On next restart I can then load that file and keep most, if not all, the FIFO data.

Hope that at least gives you some ideas.

K

[ttdread]

Thanks Kimera! I knew there was someone out there that had other solutions. I will see if I can use your suggestion to accomplish my task. The method you described is all new to me so I'll see if I can figure it all out. Thanks for pointing me in a positive direction!