How can I detect that the Flash Player is exiting?

[DBA]

I have written a basic chat client that talks to an XML Socket server. When it starts it connects to the socket and works fine. However, when I close the Flash Player it is still occupying a connection to the server.

I am trying to determine how I can trap the close of the Flash Player and programmatically close the connection to the server before the program exits.

Thanks in advance.

[BeerOclock]

Thats very strange if Flash player can indeed maintain a connection even after it is closed...

I'm interested to see how you solve this. Sorry, no actual help though

[jase21]

You need to listen to the CLOSE event.
I think..

myScoket = new XMLSocket();
mySocket.addEventListener(Event.CLOSE, disconnect);

function disconnect(event:Event):void
{
    //diconnect it..
}

[Edit]

there is Event.CLOSING, to detect whether a window is about to close and is fired before CLOSE event.
But its AIR only.

[DBA]

Originally Posted by jase21

You need to listen to the CLOSE event.
I think..

myScoket = new XMLSocket();
mySocket.addEventListener(Event.CLOSE, disconnect);

function disconnect(event:Event):void
{
    //diconnect it..
}

[Edit]

there is Event.CLOSING, to detect whether a window is about to close and is fired before CLOSE event.
But its AIR only.

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, the socket CLOSE event is only fired when the socket server disconnects. I am looking for the event that fires when the client is shutting down so I can close the socket connection from the client side.