Re: FLASH: OT: Databases for Designers

[Gregg Caines]

I'm not a designer, but the easiest way to get into dynamic content

is probably through ASP and MS Access.  Access is more of a 'toy'

database because it's only useful for up to 30 concurrent users, but

it's got lots of wizards and visual tools to make things easier.


There are even conversion tools for Access to SQL Server, if you 

need more power, but you could probably create a useful database

with any DBMS after you've figured out the basics of Access.  

That's when you can get into better (free) dbs like MySQL or 

interbase.


As far your movie-clip-across-scenes question, you could set a 

variable to true when the sound should be on, and false when it 

should be off.  At the beginning of each new scene, check if the value

is true or false and target the on/off movie clip so that it works 

appropriately.


If I were doing it, I wouldn't use scenes, but there are probably many 

people here who'd disagree...


HTH


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Gregg Caines

n e o m e t r i x  systems inc.

http://www.neometrixsystems.com

gcainesneometrixsystems [dot] com

> I wanted to get different opinions about the database 

> platform/solution for website DESIGNERS, not programmers (This is for 

> general, dynamic information websites powered from databases).. Any 

> comments on this?

> 

> Also, Flash question -- Is there a way when using a music on/off MC 

> across multiple scenes so that the music doesn't start playing again 

> everytime you advance to the next scene? I think I used the tutorial 

> from Flashkit.. but when you click music off then navigate to the 

> next scene, it starts back up (because the default is music on..) 

> Thanks for the help.

> -- 

> --------------------------------------------

> Mathew Smith

>

msmith2sc [dot] rr [dot] com

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