Webcam Application

Question

I'm currently developing an application but am running into
some troubles. I hope you guys can help me.
What I'd like to do is a webcam game, that's how it should
work:
- a master movie is placed on the server
- the first person opening the swf can see the master movie,
then he's asked to reproduce what he saw with his webcam
- the second person comes and sees the last recorded movie
and then again has to reproduce what he saw, when he finishes he
will se the master movie, to compare.
- and so on
now recording and playing all works fine, more or less, but
how can I find out how many movies are there already? I thought
about saving an xml with php on a simple webserver, but there has
to be an easier way, a solution I can solve with FMS to read out
the data in the folder.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

quote:
Originally posted by:
McKean
sorry to bother again, I placed the code into my fla:
function doConnect() {
client_nc = new NetConnection();
client_nc.onStatus = function(info) {
trace("Level: "+info.level+newline+"Code: "+info.code);
fileObject = new File("streams/_definst_");
fileList = fileObject.list();
trace(fileList);
for (a=0; a<fileObject.length; a++) {
trace("File found "+fileList[a].name);
client_nc.connect("rtmp://192.168.1.42/sample_room");
I think I'm doing something wrong here...
Where do I have to place this?
Thanks!
The code goes in your server side actionscript, not on the
client side. So, you'll need a client function and a server
function... something like this:
On ther server side:
Client.prototype.getStreamList = function(){
fileObject = new File("streams/_definst_");
fileList = fileObject.list();
returnArray = new Array();
for (a=0; a<fileObject.length; a++){
returnArray.push(fileList[a].name);
return ReturnArray;
On the client side:
function getStreamList(){
client_nc.call("getStreamList", onGetStreamList);
function onGetStreamList(data){
for (a=0; a<data.length; a++){
trace(data[a]);
So, what's happening here is that the client calls the server
function, and the server returns the results to the client as an
array of file names.
As Fguru mentioned, you could use a SharedObject, but then
you'd be eating up extra RAM when you don't need to.