Writing to socket with setinterval not working in windows

Question

Hello Everyone,
I'm trying to stream a big file to my server, and was using 'setInterval' just fine to slowly upload it from OS X, but when I moved my AIR application to a Windows Vista computer, it no longer worked. I started doing some investigation and found out that 'socket.writeBytes' function was not working inside of 'setInterval'. I then moved the code inside of 'setInterval' to outside of it and everythink worked, but obviously it was no longer streaming. Thinking there was something wrong with 'setInterval', I tried it  without the 'socket.writeBytes' function in it, and it started working fine.
Not sure what is happening, but it seems like a bug in the air.Socket code.
Here is my code:
    var socket = new air.Socket();
    socket.addEventListener(air.Event.CONNECT, function(e) {
        var stream = setInterval(function() {
               socket.writeBytes(filePart, 0, filePart.length);
                if (isDone) {
                    clearInterval(stream);
        }, 1000);
    socket.connect("myServer", 80);
P.S. I also tried using 'air.Timer' and it was the same behavior as 'setInterval'.
Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

Hi,
You should use the flush method:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/net/Socket.html#f lush%28%29
"Flushes any accumulated data in the socket's output buffer.
On some operating systems, flush() is called automatically between execution frames, but on other operating systems, such as Windows, the data is never sent unless you call flush() explicitly. To ensure your application behaves reliably across all operating systems, it is a good practice to call the flush() method after writing each message (or related group of data) to the socket."
I hope this helps!
-Erica