Flash recording through mic

Question

Hi,
I've been trying to figure out how to record using mic feature. I had modified the example in the AS3 guide to something like this:
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.utils.ByteArray;
import flash.net.SharedObject;
stop();
stopRecord.visible =false;
mybutton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, recordmic);
trace("here!");
function recordmic(event:MouseEvent):void {
const DELAY_LENGTH:int = 20000;
var mic:Microphone = Microphone.getMicrophone();
mic.setSilenceLevel(0, DELAY_LENGTH);
mic.gain = 50;
mic.rate = 44;
mybutton.visible = false;
stopRecord.visible = true;
mic.addEventListener(SampleDataEvent.SAMPLE_DATA, micSampleDataHandler);
stopRecord.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, stoprecordmic);
var soundBytes:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
/*var timer:Timer = new Timer(DELAY_LENGTH);
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, timerHandler);
timer.start(); */
function micSampleDataHandler(event:SampleDataEvent):void
    while(event.data.bytesAvailable)
       var sample:Number = event.data.readFloat();
        soundBytes.writeFloat(sample);
          soundBytes.position = 0;
function stoprecordmic(event:MouseEvent):void
    mic.removeEventListener(SampleDataEvent.SAMPLE_DATA, micSampleDataHandler);
    var header:URLRequestHeader = new URLRequestHeader ("Content-type","application/octed-stream");
     var mp3URLRequest : URLRequest = new URLRequest("uploadsound.php");
     mp3URLRequest.requestHeaders.push(header);
     mp3URLRequest.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
     mp3URLRequest.data= soundBytes;
     stopRecord.visible=false;
     mybutton.visible = true;
Here, there are two buttons, one starts recording and the other stops recording. The resulting .swf file is only 2kb in size and it doesn't do what it is supposed to do.
What am I doing wrong here? Other players similar to this have sizes in the range of 80-100 kb.
Help will be very much appreciated!
Thankyou!

Answer 1

you made soundBytes local to recordmic().  and it looks like you might be nesting named functions.  fix that:
var soundBytes:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
stop();
stopRecord.visible =false;
mybutton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, recordmic);
trace("here!");
function recordmic(event:MouseEvent):void {
const DELAY_LENGTH:int = 20000;
var mic:Microphone = Microphone.getMicrophone();
mic.setSilenceLevel(0, DELAY_LENGTH);
mic.gain = 50;
mic.rate = 44;
mybutton.visible = false;
stopRecord.visible = true;
mic.addEventListener(SampleDataEvent.SAMPLE_DATA, micSampleDataHandler);
stopRecord.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, stoprecordmic);
function micSampleDataHandler(event:SampleDataEvent):void
    while(event.data.bytesAvailable)
       var sample:Number = event.data.readFloat();
        soundBytes.writeFloat(sample);
          soundBytes.position = 0;