Re: FLASH: Flash + Dreamweaver Ultra Dev

[Eduardo J. Farias]

What kind of Database (Access, File Maker) you can connect or use with

Ultradev?


Ed


David Wallach wrote:


> love ultra dev!

>

> One complaint, where is the WebObjects connectivity?

>

> that would ice the cake....

>

> d.

>

>

From: jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com (John Dowdell)

>

Reply-To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:49:58 -0700

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: Re: FLASH: Flash + Dreamweaver Ultra Dev

>

> At 8:44 AM 10/19/0, Matt Spiegler wrote:

> > We're thinking of getting UltraDev and are wondering if it

> > makes Flash integration with back-end easier, harder,

> > weirder, etc. I'd also be interested in hearing anything

> > pro/con about UltraDev in general.

>

> Well, they're a little orthogonal to each other... no direct connection,

> sorry.

>

> UltraDev's goal is to make it easy to design with data-driven pages... you

> can actually see live data delivered from the database as you're creating

> the HTML page. It's the first (and only) visual editor for live data-driven

> pages.

>

> The previous alternative was to (a) do the HTML design while looking at

> code in your page; (b) switch over to a browser or some other window to

> preview; (c) switch back to doing visual editing with the codes; (d) switch

> back to preview mode to see it with data; (e) repeat ad infinitum.

>

> Dreamweaver UltraDev lets you size fields, style text and all the rest

> while viewing the data in the page... it essentially does what the first

> visual HTML editors did with static HTML. UltraDev lets you visually design

> with live data.

>

> UltraDev also includes server-side behaviors for common tasks, similar to

> what Dreamweaver introduced with its JavaScript behaviors... if you're

> doing complex work then you might want to add hand-written scripts, but the

> majority of work can be done with the automated scripts. It also gives you

> a single environment for creating sites to a variety of middleware,

> leverages off the extensibility of the regular Dreamweaver platform, more.

>

> As you can see from the above, Dreamweaver UltraDev produces an HTML page

> with various scripts inside it. When viewed in a browser, the page will be

> populated with data in realtime. UltraDev doesn't really accept triggers

> from objects in the page, or make display changes to objects in the page.

>

> That said, you *could* tap into UD's in-page functions through FSCommand,

> but this relies on the browser to convey those commands. That's pretty much

> the only way I see them working together, sorry.

>

> What is it that you're trying to accomplish? Is this a Flash piece that

> needs data-driven content? If so then we'd be looking to load data in

> either URL-encoded or XML-formatted methods, or possibly creating a new SWF

> at serving-time from Generator. A lot depends on the design goals and

> current nature of the data, though. How far has this been defined yet...?

>

> jd

>

> John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US

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