synchronous web service calls

[cemack]

Hi,

Is there a way in flash to call a web service synchronously? (ie: without a callback, so that the code stops executing until the web service responds).

Cheers

Chris

[freddycodes]

Why don't you want to use a callback, its the only way you are going to detect when the web service has stopped running.

[cemack]

because using a callback is asynchronous. I need a synchronous way to call a web service.

[freddycodes]

yes i got your question the first time. You are asking for something that can't be done in flash. Requests to the server from flash are inherentitly asynchronous. My question is why is this so important. Possibly there is a better way to solve the problem.