Re: FLASH: Generator at home,

[Mike Chambers]

But Matt also said that it helps to generate content

> on your own computer to later upload... although the process lacked any

> real specific explanations as to how this works and it lacked diagrams

> and examples that made sense to me.


If you have the free Generator Authoring templates installed then you can

use the Generator objects to create Flash movies (without using the

Generator server). For instance, say you need a Pie Chart in your Flash

movie. You could manually create the chart in Flash (which would be a pain),

and then publish the movie. However, you could also use the Pie Chart

Generator object, plug in your data and then preview the movie (all within

Flash). When you do this, it will create an swf file with the Pie Chart

included. You could then use the swf in any way you want.


Now, if the pie chart needs to always have up to date data, then you would

probably want to use a Generator server, which would dynamically create your

Flash movie (with Pie Chart).


Let me know if you have any more questions...


Mike Chambers

meshspeakeasy [dot] org

mchambersfigleaf [dot] com

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