RE: FLASH: OT : 10 new Generator Objects atFlash Exchange

[Paul Willoughby]

Thanks for your comprehensive answer Mike, but I've still got a coupla

niggling doubts...


Mike Chambers wrote on 30 November 2000: 



> If you had 20 swfs and 1000 texts files, and they were only 

> updated once a

> week you would definitely want to use Generator (in offline 

> mode in this

> case). Do you really want to have to manually update / 

> republish 20 swfs

> every single week?


Well, this is it, the way the SWF's work they wouldn't need to be

updated/republished, only the text files. Say you had a 1000 quiz

questions and 20 different styles of quiz games (like www.douno.com),

the SWF's just pull in whatever text is there as long as the most up to

date versions are in the right directory I should be OK...

...hang on...

...if I do it like this the movie and the text file are gonna cache to

the users hard drive, right? That means unsrupulous gits could analyze

the text file and start making there own quizzes based on my groovy

templates, right? Does Generator deal with just such an issue by

compiling the text data and SWF's off line so the user never sees the

text file? Or can it even convert my text files to an SWF which just

contains the variables? Hmmm...I better go and download that trial

version.


> generator go

> swiftly create your graphics

> users have good time


<smirk>don't give up the day job</smirk>


paul


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