ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

XMLSocket.send() Method

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To access the raw data sent over a socket, override the default behavior of the socket’s

onData() handler (see XMLSocket.onData()).

Example

To respond to an onXML() event, we must assign our own callback function to the onXML

property of an XMLSocket object. The following code assigns the function handleIncoming()

to

mySocket’s onXML property. The handleIncoming() function accesses one of the nodes of the

XML object hierarchy stored in

messageObj and adds its value to the text field messages_txt:

mySocket = new XMLSocket();

mySocket.onXML = handleIncoming;

function handleIncoming (messageObj) {

trace("Got some new data!");

// messageObj will contain the fragment: <MESSAGE>text</MESSAGE>

var message = messageObj.firstChild.firstChild;

messages_txt.text += (message.nodeValue + "\n");

}

For code showing the onXML() handler used in a more complete system, see Example R-11

under the XMLSocket class.

See Also

XMLSocket.send(), XMLSocket.onData(); Chapter 10

XMLSocket.send() Method

transmit XML-formatted data to a server application

Flash 5

socket.send(xmlObject)

Arguments

xmlObject An XML object to be converted into a string and sent to the server applica-

tion or any string containing XML-formatted text.

Description

The send() method transmits ...