FLASH: Advanced Playlist/windows explorer in Flash?

[Waldo Smeets]

Hi,


i'm willing to make an advanced playlist so visitors can define

themselves wich movies they want to have played, and wich not.

I'm thinking about the following concept:


Two coloms, the left colom for the files that must be played, the right

colom for the files that are available but wich the user doesn't want to

be played.

I want to work with variables that can be loaded from a .txt file. So

that it's possible to make different movies available for different

visitors.

I know which functionality I want in my playlist explorer, but I'm not

quite sure which way is the best for building it. Or perhaps it's even

better to use generator.


I'm doubting about a lot of things. Perhaps it's a little bit confusing

when you read it, but that's because of my bad english and the lot of

things going through my mind:


1.

First the movie has got to load the .txt file. With that file i need to

simulate a 2 dimensional database in Flash (using arrays?) summing all

the files available, and per file it's attributes values like

"selected?, title, time, producer, number_in_list" etc. What's the best

way to do this?


2.

How do I make the playlist's content visible? It is possible to make a

textbox with a specific variablename. So i can replace the text in the

textbox with the variable value. But i'm never sure how much files are

selected and how much not! I don't know how to use the duplicate command

in such a way that it duplicates as much boxes as needed at the left

(with all different variable names like selectedsong_i and

nonselectedsong_x) and right?


3.

Is it possible to let the user sort the variables on name, title etc.?


I can go on like this for hours. It's like building something like an

ws_ftp window, entirely in Flash and using .txt files. You can even

think about dragging and dropping etc.

Has someone done this before? Or who can give me some ideas? I'm not

willing to reinvent the wheel, but the functionality looks very cool to

me! I guess it will take some time. Shall i start with it (i've just

started learning actionscript).


Oef,

I'll stop writing. I'm curious about how you all think about this.


Waldo




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