Re: FLASH: Access to Flash?

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Shaun,


In your case I would suggest passing all the grunt work to 'the database

guy'.

What do you have to ask him ?

Simple. Identify what you need in terms of data. Let's follow an

example. Suppose you want to display in your Flash movie a list of

products and prices. The database guy tells you they have access to this

info. Now decide on your layout. How will you display the information?

How many product/price pairs do you want to display at a time ? This is

your work. After you have a final idea of what you want it's time to go

back to the database guy.

Now you'll have to tell him something like this:

I need a cgi script (ASP whatever...) that I will be calling from a

Flash movie. I need this script to return the following information,

product names and price of product. I will be displaying an x number of

product pairs each time so I will need some kind of pointer that

indicates where I am on the list and how many items the list contains.

Show him how you want to lay it out so he can get to grips with what you

need. It won't be hard for him to get something working for you.

If all goes well you will have a script that does the query and returns

the collected values. Depending on how the values are returned you will

now have to get your Action Script working. This is just a matter of

using the data you now have accessible from your flash movie and placing

it in the proper places according to your design.

If you want to get a feeling of what a similar type of application would

be try searching for Flash Chat app's. I think there are several ready

made samples with fla's that you can study. I don't have any url's here

but I don't think it will be to hard to find in the regular places.


.redstar.




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