First Time Project: Flash in Director

[Ian Richardson]

I am starting out on my first project in Director..(god help me!!!!)


Can i firstly start be thanking the list in advance for all help and

direction, by the end of the next few weeks you'll be sick of my

questions....


I am building a flash based calculator style programme that the user will

enter 8 variables into.. the calculator then takes these variables and

calculates the these against a set of set variables stored within an

external file. to produce a result which will show an overall result (

ideally a saving when based on the variable entered) Sound simple

enough(!!!) 


This file will be accessed via director opened and ran (or at least that my

plan) 


My question(s) are :



Can anyone see any potential problems about running the flash swf and

external data within director?



Are there any things i need to take into consideration before starting?


As i see it the runing schedule will be as follows:



Director start via .exe file

this launches a 20 second intro

main screen launches.


user has three options:


                    1 launch calculator

                    2 play a video

                    3 play a presentation