Re: FLASH: Using generator to make static gif

[John Dowdell]

At 4:13 AM 11/19/99, L a r s   G r a v e s e n wrote:

> What I would like to do is to move the furnitures around and when

> these are in a perfect place click at a bottom and have generator

> make a gif image in a new page.


That's different. Generator can indeed make GIFs on demand... you feed it a

template file, and the data, and it applies the data to your template

instructions to make a new SWF, GIF, MOV, whatever.


In this case you'd have to consider how you'd get the positional choices

from the clientside movie back to the server first.


This can be done... if you're good with Flash's scripting then you can

concatenate the positions of various movie clips and POST it to the server,

which can then apply these name=value pairs to clips in its template file

and deliver a GIF.


You've got two distinct problems here: How can I find where they moved

things, and get that back to the server? Once you've addressed that then

it's the simple problem of using Generator to create an image file to

serve.


I realize the above doesn't walk you through the implementation step by

step, but does it show the path you'd likely take to reach such a goal...?


jd






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