Question

I am working on a flex project using sharedobjects to store information on my server. I am not 100% sure how to do this, so I was looking up tutorials and came across this bit of code:

nc = new NetConnection();
nc.connect("rtmp://[website here]");
so = SharedObject.getRemote("ballPosition", nc.uri, false);
so.connect(nc);

But when it gets to the 3rd line, it crashes. I don’t know how to use the debugger for flex sadly enough, which I am looking into now, but I figured that I would post this here and hope for the best. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I started posting this as a comment, but it quickly got too long..

You may be getting the error because you’re not connected to the server. If you’re connected then you’ll get a true returned from your second line. I’d start there. eg:

nc = new NetConnection();
var c = nc.connect("rtmp://[website here]");
trace(c);
so = SharedObject.getRemote("ballPosition", nc.uri, false);
so.connect(nc);

Also, you might try wrapping this in a try/catch block as that will give you the error, but won’t kill your app (since you’re new to debugging).

try {
    nc = new NetConnection();
    nc.connect("rtmp://[website here]");
    so = SharedObject.getRemote("ballPosition", nc.uri, false);
    so.connect(nc);
} catch(e:Error) {
    trace("my sweet error is:", e);
}

In all, debugging is simply awesome and can save you a lot of time in certain situations. good luck!