Re: FLASH: Generator Newbie data source questions

[Phillip M. Torrone]

At 11:53 AM 6/30/00 -0700, you wrote:

>   Is there a way to update JPEGs just from typing a JPEG

>   filename and path in a text file?


yep, make the name of your jpeg a variable like this: {myjpeg} in the

generator environment area specify a data source, which could be a text

file...or a variable as well, but we won't talk about that yet.



>2) Assuming the above is possible, let's say I have a text

>   file with 10 text headlines and 10 different accompanying JPEG

>   file names.

>   Is there something in Generator that will allow me to spit 

>   out 10 different .swfs with a different headline and JPEG in each

>   just from the building of one template? Or is this something

>   that requires other technologies to be working with Generator?


yep- you'll need to use generator in offline mode and use something to

batch these out. a simple .bat or cron job could do this automatically...


cheers,


phillip m. torrone

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