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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, April 2, 2004 08:49 PM
> To: 'CF-Talk'
> Subject: Re: desktop application
>
> The client machine will HAVE TO connect to the net for this to happen. It can detect the connection...when it does it can call a remote web service to "suck the data out of the XML file and stuff it in the DB" as I so eloquently put it ;-)
>
> Of course any solution with remote unconnected clients will eventually require a connection to "phone home" to get the data
>
> Bryan Stevenson B.Comm.
> VP & Director of E-Commerce Development
> Electric Edge Systems Group Inc.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Burns, John D
> To: CF-Talk
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 12:39 PM
> Subject: RE: desktop application
>
>
> No, I understand how to get from XML to the DB, but if the Flash file is
> running directly on a client machine (CF not installed and no internet
> connection) how do I get Flash to write the input to a text or xml file
> for upload later?
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brook Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 3:41 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: desktop application
>
> "suck the data out of the XML file and stuff it in the DB"
>
> Bryan, your getting way too technical man. I'm having trouble following
> all
> of this high tech terminology! ;)
>
> Brook
>
> At 12:04 PM 4/2/2004, you wrote:
>
> >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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> >www.macromedia.com
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> >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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