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12:09 pm
The show is great and effective - but I am hoping for a way to make the Fast Money round smoother live. I am using dual monitors to a projector so that the main screen is an unseen master. Is there a way to create an interface in Flash that feeds realtime data in a second dialog box to drive the data in the bonusquestions.xml file without having to restart the game?
In order to not break the flow of the show, our current solution is to rehearse the fast money round for both teams in advance and populate the file with their real answers from the rehearsal. Both teams will memorize their answers for the show - the winning team gets to play Fast Money. It keeps it real (to a point) and fixes the flow, but breaks the spontanaety.
Any ideas or tweaks?
Show date is Dec 17.
3:22 pm
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I don't have a definitive answer as I didn't create those latest Flash versions, but I don't see that as being an easy or quick tweak / addition.
1:53 am
I see the problem you're facing and it's due to the way the xml file is loaded.
Because the Actionscript code loads the file once, Flash caches the xml information and there's no way to update the display without relaunching the game.
I'll try to implement a fix which requires the Actionscript to keep checking the xml file for changes every few seconds. This way, you could edit the xml file on the fly and automatically update the fast money screen with answers and points immediately.
Ultimately, I think that having a pair of laptops, one running the game, the other editing the xml file would probably be the most efficient way to go. It'd certainly be streamlined!
I'll provide an update this week.
9:23 am
I've asked for some assistance but nothing suitable has come of it and unfortunately, the level of scripting required to make this work is outside my Flash coding abilities.
If anyone else can code this, please feel free to do so and let us know how it turns out.
