Re: FLASH: Forms in Flash

[John Dowdell]

At 4:16 AM 9/28/98, J�rgen Dolezal wrote:

> I... am wondering if it is possible to incorporate a form (as in

> <form>blabla</form>) directly into a flash movie or if you have

> to build the flash stuff around the form, as it is required with GIFs.


Welcome, and you're right -- we don't have editable text within the Flash

movie at runtime itself, and so the entry of a username or other text

information needs to be done in the host, whether in HTML/JavaScript,

Director, or such.


In Flash we can often send menu-driven choices to the server through use of

branching sequences and parameters passed via URLs, and it's conceivable to

have JavaScript catch a keystroke and tell the SWF to display a certain

letter, but in general, editable text usually requires some type of

scripting processing, implying a larger host application than Flash's

small, fast player.


jd






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