FLASH: RE: cgi

[Charles Day]

Very nice design on both versions.  How come you didn't go full screen with

your flash?


I cheated with my cgi.  It doesn't actually know if the script was

successful or not.  I send the data first to the script, then play the

thankyou scene  This simple emailer script never fails anyway, but if you

incorporate a database transaction, we should do fail checking.  You can

easily send the browser to the script, do your scripting and cacluations,

database entries, then print out a the thank you scene upon success or error

scene upon some failure, but you're screen will blink with the redirect.

Ideally, you should be able to execute the script without leaving flash, and

get a response back before printing anything to the browser.  Can't we send

a via GET, then do:

if response true

Goto and play "thankyou"

else

goto and play "failed"


...hmmmm...


Charles




-----Original Message-----

From: Daniel Hart [

djh-graphicszetnet [dot] co [dot] uk (mailto:djh-graphicszetnet [dot] co [dot] uk)

]

Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2000 6:59 PM

To: Charles Day

Subject: cgi



Hi Charles,


Some nice touches on the panoramic site - the thing that really intereted me

was the mailing list submission form. This is exactly what I am trying to

achieve myself on http://www.panlogic.co.uk - the Flash version to echo the

version on www.panlogic.co.uk/join.html.


Also, do you know how to incorporate a timer function that returns the

thanks frame ONLY when the cgi has been succesfully executed?


many thanks, take a look at my Flash stuff, would appreciate your comments.


Daniel Hart

graphic designer, Oxford UK

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