Bryan Stevenson B.Comm.
VP & Director of E-Commerce Development
Electric Edge Systems Group Inc.
t. 250.920.8830
e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Macromedia Associate Partner
www.macromedia.com
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Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group
Founder & Director
www.cfug-vancouverisland.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Burns, John D
To: CF-Talk
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 12:48 PM
Subject: SOLVED: desktop application
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.
> VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group
> Inc.
> t. 250.920.8830
> e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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> Macromedia Associate Partner
> www.macromedia.com
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> Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director
> www.cfug-vancouverisland.com
> ----- 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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