Re: FLASH: Entirely flash shoppingcart/catalog

[Matt Wobensmith]

Hi Neal,


Macromedia has prepared an article on creating just what you mentioned - using Flash to make an e-commerce storefront. You can see the article/tutorial at:


http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/interactivity/droptarget/droptarget.html


-Matt


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Matt Wobensmith

Macromedia Tech Support

Flash Team Lead


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From: ownerchinwag [dot] com (flasher-digest)

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>Subject: flasher-digest V1 #2564

>Date: Wed, Mar 1, 2000, 9:46 PM

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From: nealldd [dot] com (Neal Cabage)

>Subject: FLASH: Entirely flash shoppingcart/catalog

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>THOUGHT:

>I am considering the possibility of creating a shopping-cart/catalog using

>exclusively Flash as the front-end.

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>CONTEXT:

>As mentioned prior, sites like boo.com are largely a mix of

>HTML/DHTML/Flash.  I would like to try to do an entire interface in Flash

>though.  In order to do so I need to plan to do the following:

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>NECESSARY PRESUMPTIONS:

>1. for the catalog portion I will need to load images into a specific

>location on the stage dynamically.  From what I have read, I believe this

>can be done by compiling each image as a swf to be loaded dynamically using

>load movie.

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>2. I can build off of Pipey's example of a dyamically populated listbox in

>Flash to create a "view cart" page.

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>These are the presumptions I need to make.  Further, I need to be positive

>that there are no security concerns (which I don't believe there should be)

>by building with a Flash front-end.

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>Can somone out there tell me if they know of any limitations to watch out

>for or if they can think of any reasons why *not* to proceed this way (eg

>proceed to make an entire Flash interface to the shopping cart/catalog)?  I

>am being pressured to make a decision before I am ready to do so (eg want to

>do more research ...as I am fairly new to flash4) but i want to make sure

>there aren't any blind traps I should know about before i say it can be

>done.  So far, it seems like it can ... but saying "yes" at this point makes

>me *really* nervous.  Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

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>Thanks in advance.

>Neal

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