Re: FLASH: News, Sports, Weather template using Flash

[John Dowdell]

At 8:39 PM 6/29/99, Sienna wrote:

> I have a new contract that requires my shockwave site to pull real

> time news, weather and sports data from another program...

> My job is to come up with a system that both our ppl and the news

> channel can edit each day.


If this is actually a Shockwave site, then a simple "getNetText()" call to

the server can retrieve updated text at any time.


If you're looking for a format in which to transfer the data, then XML can

be useful... your content providers can use a simple XML editor to identify

the various structural parts of their content, and Shockwave's XML parser

can quickly change this updated information to a normal property list.

(Using XML as the structure would put you in a good position for future

automated news feeds.)



If you're actually using Flash rather than Shockwave, though, then Flash 4

has the advantage in being able to modify its own text at runtime. With

Flash 3 you'd need to use serverside generation of new SWFs.


One of the advantages of the Macromedia Generator is that it's tuned for

full business use, with high-volume around-the-clock operation. There are

tutorials in the Generator Support Center about integrating Generator with

Allaire's ColdFusion and with Microsoft's Active Server.


Not sure if any of the above is on-topic to what you're seeking, though...

if I'm not looking at the right part of the problem then please advise,

thanks.


jd








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