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Subject: Fw: FLASH: Editable E-mail signatures ?
From: p-h
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 08:20:37 GMT

... Sorry to be so insistent - I'm due to make a report to my client
tomorrow morning and I sill haven't found a suitable solution... Help
welcome ! :o)



| Hello hello ! I just had another "crazy" idea, which in the principle
seems
| OK but will need some kind assistance as far as the code is concerned. As
| stated below, I was looking for a solution to send "flash" signatures in
| e-mails. I think I found something (at least it seems it will work for a
| majority of recipients) :
|
| publish on the web a blank HTML page with just the .swf banner
| open MSIE and "tools/mail and news/send page"-it
| type in the body of the mail in outlook
| send the whole - et voil� ! :o)
|
| Now about the "crazy" idea, I already implemented the possibility to
| remotely edit text variables to sort of create "new" updated banners quite
| easily - it works fine. Now I'm wondering if the principle couldn't be
| extended to the modification of GRAPHIC variables, by adding something
like
|
| &background=red
|
| for instance, and by ActionScript read the value or the variable
| "background" and from there go to a frame labelled "red" where, of course,
| the background will be set to red.
|
| That would allow for simple, basic visual changes of the banner by the
| client, among a small choice of presets.
| Your opinion about this is welcome (and I would be most grateful if some
of
| you could provide me with the starting lead as how to actually implemend
| this ! :o)
|
| Now I tried this :
|
| If (background="red")
| Go to and Stop ("red")
| Else If (background="green")
| Go to and Stop ("green")
| Else
| Go to and Stop ("End")
| End If
|
| But unfortunately the playback head stops on the "red" label and doesn't
go
| to the "green" one even if the "background" variable reads
| "&background=green" from the text file :o(
|
| Any idea ?
|
| Thank you & Nice day to all
|
| P-H Steyt
|
| | Hi all !
| |
| | I am requested to develop banner-like signatures that my client will
send
| at
| | the bottom of his e-mails.
| | This would not be too difficult with [insert picture] animated gifs
| | (although it appears that some recipients get the file as an attachment
| | instead of in the body of the mail, and some even don't get anything at
| | all...)
| |
| | This is thus my first question : how to be sure the recipients can
| properly
| | view the "regular" (animated gifs) banners ?
| |
| | It gets a little more tricky with the additional request that those
| banners
| | should be easily and quickly editable by the client (typically variables
| | such as a "promo valid until..." date or a product price, etc.), with as
| | little work and knowledge as possible.
| |
| | So I started developping a flash banner using the "load variable into
| | location" feature of Flash4. The client just has to edit a small .txt
file
| | like this :
| |
| | date=..../..../....
| | &discount= ....
| |
| | and upload it to a spedific loation on his website (only one ftp program
| | involved, so I think it's the simplest approach possible...)
| |
| | It works just fine either locally and from the internet
| | (http://www.europ-digital-business.net/banners/test/bannerTest1.html).
| | Now the second question is : how can one "insert" (ideally automatically
| so)
| | that flash banner in signature at the bottom of the emails ?
| | Any hint most welcome, for I tried several options and really can't
figure
| | out how to do this (the "signature" options in Outlook for insctance do
| not
| | allow HTML insertion...).
| |
| | Thank you in advance
| |
| | P-H Steyt
|
|
|
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