Re: FLASH: getting a SQL response into flash

[Vipin Kanwar]

Hi JD,


Nice to see someone from Macromedia peeping in here.


I've been a flash user right from version one.. and really love the

application and the results.


My question was how do i get a sql response (from inside of a asp file) into

flash.


The sql response currently goes to a html table with say 3 fields. I need to

be able to send the same response to a flash file. Meanwhile.. since i do not

know howmuch data there is in each of the fields.. how do I align each field

so that it shows up properly aligned with the rest of the fields in the same

record.


e.g. field Name is one line

field Lastname is one line

field address is 1 to 4 lines (depending on the browser window size)


so.. in the second record.. the field name should go to the next line after

the last line of field address in record one.


I guess that makes this two questions. One how do i get the multiple records

into a flash movie and 2nd .. how to align them properly.


I also wish that macromedia puts up some more technical notes on flash-asp

interactivity and variables. There's hardly any examples or detailed info

there now. so most of our time is spent experimenting.


Regards

Vipin Kanwar



John Dowdell wrote:


> At 1:17 PM 2/29/0, Helen Triolo wrote:

> > I'm anxious to hear what Macromedia says in regards to

> > your question about limitations on passing long strings.

>

> I'm not sure what the question was (long threads under multiple names are

> harder to parse), but in case it's something like "Will all browsers handle

> long URLs identically?" then no, they won't... different browsers have

> different limits on URLs they support. Some are happy with over 200

> characters in an URL, but others will balk at half that.

>

> (Flash relies upon the browser's net connections... this is how we can do

> Secure Socket Layer encryption, for example, by just asking the browser if

> it can do it.)

>

> The rule-of-thumb is that if the total data is less than 100 characters or

> so then it's generally safe to append it to an URL. For longer upstream

> data transferrals, though, you'd want to use a POST statement so you're not

> running into URL length limits.

>

> jd

>

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