RE: FLASH: Flash->Generator

[JGL]

Yep, mucho content to deliver all at once. Even on a T1, you would notice a

lag thus performance problems. but . . . maybe you have considered this and

built in some type of lag compensator to keep visitors busy while all this

data loads.


If this is true, and your a-z buttons won't be available til your data is

deliverable than you can do this.


Have Flash grab 26 variables, a through z formated this way:


a=Allen, Bob%0DApple, Mary%0DAquient, Vera%0Detc...

&b=Bizze, Fran%0DButtons, Blue%0DBye, Cya

&c= . . . .

. . . etc.


If you click 'a' button, have it display 'variable a' which is:


Allen, Bob

Apple, Mary

Aquient, Vera

etc...


. . . with scrollers :) if you need . . .


The %0D is a carriage return.


You might even consider setting a-z variables as seperate files each that

only get loaded upon demand.


or a variation of the above, depending upon your exact needs . . .


You can accomplish nearly what you want with some web savvy compromise. :)


Remember, data has to load too, and 1000 names is a lot a data . . . .


Another thing you could do is load seperate .swf's when called:

a.swf, b.swf, c.swf etc. . . .

Each .swf is identical and calls/displays a variable 'names'. Only

difference is a.swf loads file a.txt and b.swf loads file b.txt . . . each

with 'names' as the variable . . .


. . . does any of this work with generator? . . . beats me!


jgl




-----Original Message-----

How would you go about emulating HTML anchors inside of a scrolling list?


For Example:


1000 Records of People in a scrolling list.  I need to zip/zoom to the

people who's name starts with 'Q'.  So I click the 'Q' button (there are 26

buttons, each representing a letter of the alphabet) and blam there is the

first Q---- name first in display view.

OK to make matters more complex (wahoo!)

I am using Generator to create the 1000 records.  I am connecting generator

to filemaker with lasso.   (wahoo! wahoo! ; )

These things won't matter so much if I can only figure out how to just

emulate the HTML anchors within the scrolling list.  I will figure out the

lasso side.



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