As long as your dataset is relatively small, XML is fine, but at some
point a real database is going to be needed. I'm not sure how v12
with flash is going to work, but I have used Valentina with Director,
and when you have 10's of thousands of records, you can't afford the
disk space or speed penalty of xml files on a CD
On Feb 25, 2006, at 12:37 PM, Danny wrote:
I've programmed many databases both in Director and Flash, and find
it much more code it myself than use an xtra like V12.
For your example, I would assign each module an ID number, then in
Excel or FileMaker, what ever data base you want to use, match the
ID number up with the paths to the content and description
ID, path, description
23498, moduleOne\myPDF.pdf, descriptionHere
23498, moduleOne\myPres.ppt, descriptionHere
99999, moduleTwo\myPDF.pdf, descriptionHere
99999, moduleTwo\myDoc.doc, descriptionHere
etc.
Save the data as a CSV file, and use Amber CSV Converter (http://
www.processtext.com/abccsv.html) to convert it to XML. This
creates a very easily readable XML file without a lot of extra crap
like you get if you convert directly from Filemaker.
There are plenty of examples of how to load the XML into Flash and
save it in an Array.
Assign the ID numbers to the proper nodes in the tree using the
data parameter. When a user chooses a node, search your array for
all the matches to the ID number and display the descriptions.
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