Adam's suggestion was perfect.  Flash SharedObject in MX does exactly
what I needed.  Thanks to everyone who chimed in.

John Burns

-----Original Message-----
From: Adrocknaphobia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 3:31 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: desktop application

JB,

Just store everything in the shared objects (flash cookies) and do a
sync when the compuetr is online via remoting or xml.

-adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, April 2, 2004 08:27 PM
> To: 'CF-Talk'
> Subject: RE: desktop application
>
> Ok, but how do I actually write to that xml file?  I know flash can
> read, but is there a method for writing to an xml file?
>
> John Burns
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 3:04 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: desktop application
>
> Yep you could build a standalone Flash app that runs as a projector
> (.exe file on computer in question).  The app could store the
> registrations in an XML file....later you can suck the data out of the

> XML file and stuff it in the DB
>
> Bryan Stevenson B.Comm.
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> Inc.
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>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Burns, John D
>   To: CF-Talk
>   Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 11:58 AM
>   Subject: SOT: desktop application
>
>
>   I have a question about what the best practice would be for creating
a
>   desktop application.  I do websites for some different bands, and
they
>   all have an e-mail sign-up on their website.  Most of them also have
>   some kind of a paper sign-up at concerts for people to sign up for
the
>   email list.  I was considering building an app that would run on a
>   desktop to allow people at concerts to enter their email address and
>   write it to a text or xml file that could then be uploaded to the
>   webserver and parsed into the database.
>
>
>   My question is what would be the best method to do this?  I was
> thinking
>   of doing the front end in Flash but I'm not sure how to write to a
> file
>   from there.  In theory, this app would need to work on a mac and a
pc.
>   Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>   John Burns
>
>
>
>
>
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