AS2 swf to AS3 local Connection

Question

Hello:
I am embedding multiple copies of a single AS2 swf build in
FLASH into a FLEX2 AS3 swf. I am using LocalConnection to
communicate from FLEX to the flash swfs. This exhibits the strange
behaviour that only the last loaded swf actually works correctly.
The swf is a told to gotoAndStop at a particular frame. I trace the
FLASH swf function and it is getting the correct frame number from
FLEX. But it does not work correctly.
see a samle at
http://www.miragevideo.com/test.html
The problem seems to be the localConnectin being shared by
three similar instances of the gauge class. Any ideas??
Here is the FLEX code
<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Canvas xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
width="400" height="200"
horizontalScrollPolicy="off"
verticalScrollPolicy="off">
<mx:Image id="gaugeSWF"
source="@Embed(source='../../resources/gauge.swf')"
creationComplete="init();" />
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import flash.net.LocalConnection;
private var toFlash_lc:LocalConnection = new
LocalConnection();
private var _amount:int;
private function init():void{
toFlash_lc.addEventListener(StatusEvent.STATUS, onStatus);
toFlash_lc.send("lc_from_Flex",
'setGauge',_amount) ;
public function set amount(val:int):void{
_amount = val;
private function onStatus(event:StatusEvent):void {
switch (event.level) {
case "status":
// trace("LocalConnection.send()
succeeded");
break;
case "error":
trace("LocalConnection.send() failed");
break;
]]>
</mx:Script>
</mx:Canvas>
and the FLASH code:
// Code in the receiving SWF file
var receiving_lc:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
receiving_lc.setGauge = function(frame:Number) {
trace("in flash frame= " + frame +
" angle: " + ((frame/100)*180));
mask._rotation = -(frame/100)*180;
angle.text = frame.toString();
receiving_lc.connect("lc_from_Flex");
stop();

Answer 1

You can only have 1 LocalConnection per sender/receiver. If I
have 2 SWFs, A and B. If I want A and B to send messages to each
other, I need 2 LocalConnections. If I have 3 SWFs and want
bi-directional communication between all of them, I'd need 6
LocalConnections. Add a 4th SWF and you'll need a total of 12 and
so forth.