Re: FLASH: heavily text based site...need help

[Stephen]

You could try using Fireworks3 and Dreamweaver3 to create templates for the

client. With templates, the client can only change certain fields or areas

in the HTML page (defined by you, of course). But since we're on the topic

of Flash, you can do the navigation, look and feel, etc etc and leave text

fields for the oh so long texts. You can put all the text in a .txt file and

load them into the text field, then to scroll, use the .scroll and

.maxscroll properties already built into Flash 4 to scroll long text fields

dynamically (based on the lenght of the text loaded from file). If you want,

I can forward you a little tut on txt field scrolling offlist. :)


But on the other hand, if the client wants to change the menu names (for

example), he'd have to get into the .fla file.




Stephen



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Subject: FLASH: heavily text based site...need help



> Hi everyone I am doing a site for client...which is heavily based

text...the Client  wants text to be updated by himself

> How Do I setup the files so it  can be as easy as in html site....and

still keep all the function like if text are too long..

> should able to scroll or change text color?

>

> I found some tutorials regarding this subject but it dodn`t worked

out...as I said some text files are really long.

>

> is there any method to solve this problem, perhaps using language like

pearl or php?

>

> every tips will great help

> thanks a lot

> Anil

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