Re: FORMS in flash?

[Rob Koberg - Home]

p.m wrote:

> 

> Rob,

> 

> You didnt ask me either, but... ;]

> 

> Could you please show me where you got your information about ActiveX

> Data Objects or any OLE technology is compatible with MacOS?!

> 

> OLE and ActiveX is about the most propritary MS BS you can get.


Not OLE, but OLE DB.  I know, word games. This is based on the COM

layer, which the MacOS has, I believe.  You can have ActiveX controls on

the Mac, its just that no one makes them.


There are several data access methods in the Microsoft camp.  Which I

hope people realize is the "real world".  There is Data Access Objects

(DAO-the simplest and worst performing against MSAccess/Jet), Remote

Data Objects (RDO-the current way to do three tier data access, against

a RELATIONAL DB), ActiveX Data Objects (ADO-this allows data access not

only to relational DBs, but NON-RELATIONAL, things like the File System

or formatted documents or really anything that has an OL DB Provider

written [not many yet] for it), Remote Data Services (RDS-allows ADO to

be used in a distributed environment/web)


> 

> Now, I use ASP a lot, but I wouldnt want to make it the 'standard' tha

> is 'ideal for immediate future database access methods'.

> 


Check out ADO -- it is NOT ODBC -- http://www.microsoft.com/data --- you

should be able to find it from that link.  It is really incredible.  


The reason I say "immediate future" is becasue ADO is what Microsoft is

putting all their weight behind as THE way for DB access.


> Id prefer JDBC over ODBC anyday.


see above.  


> 

> Sorry had to jump in.

> 

> Paul

>

paulflasher [dot] net

> 

> Robert Koberg wrote:

> >

> > You did not ask me, but...

> > I would like the ability to read data into flash.  This would give us

>  an extremely simple way to avoid writing active server pages.  This

>  would also give a great text engine to web, authorware, visual basic,

> toolbook, etc. developers.  I would propose a method that can use OLE DB

>  and make use of ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) and Remote Data Services

> (RDS).  These (produced by Microsoft, but the system is supposed to

> be compatible with MacOS) are rapidly gaining wide spread acceptance as

>  the ideal and the immediate future database access method.

> 

> >

> > Pretty please,

> > Rob

> >

> > -----Original Message-----

>

> From: John Dowdell [SMTP:jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com]

> > Sent:   Wednesday, March 25, 1998 12:09 PM

>

> To: flashershocker [dot] com

> > Subject:        Re: FORMS in flash?

> >

> > At 4:36 PM 3/24/98, Chad Richard wrote:

> > >Does anyone know if it is possible to have a form input in a flash movie?

> >

> > Flash doesn't have typing import, if that's what you seek. We can control

> > things like which frame displays within the tool, but we can't type letters

> > into the runtime version on the client like that.

> >

> > But what is it that you're trying to accomplish? What is the client

> > demanding of you? There may be ways to achieve the goal today by using the

> > browser's scripting together with Flash.

> >

> > (Even if the goal cannot be achieved today, it would be useful for folks

> > here to know what types of things clients are wanting from designers that

> > can't yet be done, thanks.)

> >

> > What is it that you'd like to accomplish...?

> >

> > jd

> >

> > John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US

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