Flash Media Server

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Creating a development environment

This section explains what you need to know before you create Flash Media Server applications.

Make sure the server is running To publish and test your applications, Flash Media Server must be running. For more information, see Starting the service.

Specifying the server URI Use the Flash authoring environment on the same computer that is running the Flash Media Server. If that isn't the case, add your server name to all of the connect commands documented here. For example, if your server is running at myServer.myDomain.com, change a line like this:

new_nc.connect("rtmp:/doc_record/room_01");

to this:

new_nc.connect("rtmp://myServer.myDomain.com/doc_record/room_01");

Specifying publishing formats Configure Flash to publish both SWF and HTML files. To specify formats to be created during publishing, select File > Publish Settings in the authoring environment.

Writing client-side ActionScript code Unless otherwise noted, your client-side ActionScript code should be attached to a layer on the first keyframe of your FLA file, not to individual objects. Client-side code in files published for Flash Player 7 or later is case-sensitive.

Writing server-side ActionScript code For applications that use server-side ActionScript code, place the code in a server-side script file. Name the file main.asc (or it can have a name such as registered_app_name.asc) and use the Flash ActionScript Editor or the JavaScript editor to write it. Server-side code is case-sensitive.

Loading components.asc To use media components in any application, you must load the components.asc file, located in the scriptlib directory. To load this file, create a server-side script file for your application, if you haven't already, name it appropriately (such as main.asc), and add the following code at the top:

load("components.asc");

Acknowledging the user's right to privacy Before you record or broadcast anyone's image or voice, it's important to inform that person of your intention and to gain their consent or agreement.

Monitoring running applications If you have server administration permissions, you can view details about an application while you are testing it, such as log messages it is generating, values of shared objects, and so on. To do so, open the management console and connect to the Flash Media Server. For more information, see Debugging and Monitoring Applications.

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