User Guide

964 ActionScript classes

For more information, see the following:

■ Chapter 17, "Understanding Security," in Learning ActionScript 2.0 in Flash

■ The Flash Player 8 Security white paper at http://www.macromedia.com/go/fp8_security

■ The Flash Player 8 Security-Related API white paper at http://www.macromedia.com/go/

fp8_security_apis

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 7 - Note: This method is also supported in Flash

Player 6 when used with Flash Communication Server. For more information, see the Flash

Communication Server documentation.

Parameters

targetURI:String - For this parameter, you must pass null.

Returns

Boolean - If false, the connection failed and is not usable. If true, the connection has not

failed at the time the

connect() method is called, but this does not guarantee success.

Example

The following example opens a connection to play the video2.flv file. Select New Video from

the Library panel's options menu to create a new video object, and give it the instance name

my_video.

var connection_nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();

connection_nc.connect(null);

var stream_ns:NetStream = new NetStream(connection_nc);

my_video.attachVideo(stream_ns);

stream_ns.play("video2.flv");