At 10:26 AM 6/10/1, Michael Lugassy wrote:
> if someone can point out on where I can find CF TAGS to build
> FLASH stuff (I don't know FLASH AT ALL!) I'll be happy!
Aside from the charting inside CF5, it doesn't really build Flash's
deliverable SWF files, sorry.
What you *can* do is make templates which will customize data passed into a
SWF file. The client-side interactivity engine then uses this passed data
to dynamically build its internal display.
(Rephrased, where ColdFusion Server dynamically creates static pages to be
passed to a browser, the client-side Macromedia Flash or Shockwave Players
can read and pull data to create their own displays, in each visitor's
browser. You can include dynamic data inside a static HTML page for dynamic
display in the players.)
For more info on passing variable data to a SWF via HTML, see:
"Different approaches to setting variables in a Flash movie"
http://www.macromedia.com/go/14253 ("query string" section)
Another approach is to use an initial static HTML page, which invokes a SWF
file which then queries out to the server for either URL-encoded or
XML-formatted text files. This has the disadvantage of requiring a second
connection, but lets you transmit larger data sets.
jd
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