Re: FLASH: MAYDAY!! Internal Search Engine Needed MAYDAY!!

[Cheri Harder]

Follow-up on the Pico site...looks like it spiders your entire site and

searches throught all of the html pages very nicely.  However, the addition

of Flash format is brand new and not offered on the free version...but on

the $199 to $399 versions.


I would guess that these types of search engines are only going to point to

the correct movie, though, not to the particular frame...no way of them

knowing that...and sounds like Patrick's client wants specific frames of the

movie.


So, I think the only way to do this is to set up a table of information -

not an easy task for sure - to include the keyword, movie name, frame # for

each specific area they want to track.  It would probably be best to set up

as an external database and communicate to Flash via ASP or such... but

there might be some convoluted way to do it within Flash.  Like a movie clip

called "mcSearch" and consisting of frames labelled with the keyword,

actions in each of those would be to set up a list of movie/mc:frame for

that keyword.  Sounds pretty tricky, tho.


Hmmmm....maybe you could have it all in an HTML page "Index", set up the

search to scan the HTML page, which would contain links to the appropriate

swf along with a variable containing the frame #, then the swf has a goto

variablename on its first frame.


Just some thoughts...


~~~~Cheri Harder~~~~~

charderawsolution [dot] com

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