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Subject: Re: FLASH: dynamic flash
From: Sarah Lamont
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:47:12 +0100

hey Chad,

I think what you're looking for could definitly be done easily in Flash,
cause it doesn't seem that you want more than text to be dynamic, which
I think is really easy in Flash 4.

These two sites should help you with understanding pulling variables
from a text file, this first one tells you how:
http://www.flashlite.net/help/continued/postman.html

and this second one will show you how to make a scrollable area, if you
have more than a short paragraph you'd like to change:
http://www.moock.org/webdesign/flash/actionscript/scrolltext/basicscroll.html

If you want to pull variables out of a database, however, I'm 95%
certain that you must use a "middleman" language, like Cold Fusion, to
do the querys of the variable in the database, and this would convert
the variables into a flash-understandable format. If I explained it okay....?

:]
Well, hopefully this will help you get started!

�arah



>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chad Jackson" <chadatobjekt [dot] com [dot] au>
> To: <flasheratchinwag [dot] com>
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 10:54 PM
> Subject: FLASH: dynamic flash
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can someone please tell me if it is possible for a swf file to pull out
> text
> > from a database or even a text file and incorporate it into its animation?
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  FLASH: dynamic flash, Chad Jackson
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