Ok, got it working totally. I was using the SFS Server Lite 0.9.7 , which doesn't work with the AS3 API apparently. I wish they'd put that in big BOLD letters.

I uninstalled the Lite version and installed SFS Pro 1.5.5 instead, and the template.fla works perfectly.

NOTE: I read in the SFS Pro 1.5 ...

thank you!

but...

This package isn't available in the main download files, but i think it should be. I've just spent a few orrible hours locating and testing quite a few it.gotoandplay.smartfoxserver libraries, and the one on this page was the only one that could be compiled in Flash CS3.

cheers ...

Weeeeeeeeeeee! Yay! Thanks Patso, that did the trick. I has an outdated/wrong version of the it.gotoandplay.smartfoxserver library.


I got my version from...
http://www.smartfoxserver.com/download/beta/sfs_as3_beta4.zip

which is in beta, and seems to be Flex only. And was the completely wrong ...

Has anyone managed to get a simple example of the AS3 api working in the Flash CS3 authortime? I want to get a quick Papervision3D multiplayer game built, but it's not happening!

I've got the api all set up at it.gotoandplay.smartfoxserver
and my flash class goes something like this...

package ...