Re: FLASH: database to Flash

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Jeff,


"... a "possible" project in the future involves extracting data from an

Excel 2000 spreadsheets and "somehow" displaying in a Flash front end.

There is a certain amount of interactivity also...Like entering a chunk

of money and having the "screen app" divide it up between five different

areas and displaying the amount of each category based on it's

percentage of the "pie". ..."


Yes you can indeed get data from Excel into a Flash movie. The setup you

need depends on the type of server you'll be hosting the site on.

Basic idea is to have CGI access to the Excel data via ODBC. The CGI

will do the query and return the results to the Flash movie.

As for the interactive part this can be done via Flash Action Scripting

or in an external layer be it the CGI or something else.


.redstar.



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