Re: [flasher] ASP and loading data

[Gregg Caines]

Just create an ASP that returns a plain text document (as opposed to

HTML).  You don't need any of that server-side file creation and i/o

that you were wondering about.


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Gregg Caines

n e o m e t r i x  systems inc.

http://www.neometrixsystems.com

gcainesneometrixsystems [dot] com

> Before I get to far into this project I wanted to make sure my theory is

> correct.

>

> I am going to have a page with 4 graphs on it. All built in flash. each

> their own movie. I want each to get data from a database, in order to do

> this I was going to have an asp page which opens the db and gets the data,

> and then writes out the variables in the correct format for flash to

import.

> Do I have to have the asp file generate a txt file on the server, or can I

> have it just write the stuff, as though it was html, but with out the html

> junk so that the flash file gets the variables.

>

> I hope this makes sense.

> Main Page>flash movie>asp page for data

>

> Patrick