There are two other "generators" out there. I think they might be free.
I haven't played with either of them and unfortunately i don't know the
URLs. trying the web for them. It'll be much easier than writing a java
tag to do it.
Steve Nelson
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
>
> hi paul,
> nice work on tutoials here.
> well i am planning to design a component or a cfx in vc or java which will
> make it easier to insert images into flash . i mean fetch the image source
> from the database and then embed that into your flash movie dynamically. i
> know generator is there for that but i am looking for other alterntives.
> have you come across some means other than generator and swift generator to
> insert images into a flash movie?
> also what if i send flash the image's binary information , is there anyway
> that flash would be abletranslate that binary as an image and show in the
> page.
> maybe it sounds weird but i am surely gonna experiment on this , just
> avoiding getting into swf api for some time .Also i have seen that there are
> functions in PHP that let you create and manupulate flash movies ,was
> wondering will that functionality be available in cf ever ?.Anyways i am
> indeed a dedicated cf and flash developer, no php ,asp etc .
> Anyways you did one hell of a job at tutorials BRAVO!, i always wanted to
> write some but didn't got enough time.
> Regards,
> Amit Talwar
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Mone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 9:50 AM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: some cool tutorials I'm working on
>
> Hmm, so each fuse action that has any display loads a swf? This is weird
> approach. What I think is nice about the Flash environment vs. the
> traditional web environment is the fact that Flash has 'state'. The
> environment is a little different than web programming, it is more similar
> to "traditional" programming. It's the end of a long day, so let me see if
> I can collect my thoughts and attempt to explain this properly.
>
> On the web, each action the user takes is individual and un-connected. In
> CF and other languages, we can make up for this lack of state and piece
> things together with session, client variables, etc. In Flash this is
> unnecessary, because a Flash application behaves more like a traditional
> client application; having full continuous knowledge of the user's behavior.
>
> With Flash, you can do all gathering of user input and retrieving of data
> "behind the scenes", using loadVariables() or XML(). You can even load a
> completely different Flash movie "behind the scenes" using loadMovie(), so
> you never really need to redirect the user to different URLs.
>
> The Flash environment also allows you to write more object-oriented code.
> Each Moveiclip can be considered an Object, and each SWF is, in essence, a
> movieclip. You can develop functional Flash components completely
> independent of the main application it's included in, much like Fuses I
> suppose. Each movieclip has it's own set of properties and methods. You
> can segment all of your application's functionality into separate objects
> (movieclips). This is nothing new, many languages currently do this.
> But, it is much different than the way ColdFusion operates, so it's worth
> mentioning.
>
> The common denominator in a Flash application is the main timeline. This
> timeline is similar to the function of main() in C apps, and the main
> fusebox in XFB apps(from what I've gathered from the XFB discussion). All
> of the objects that you use in a Flash app can use the main timeline as a
> storage place for global variables or what-have-you.
>
> There are parallels between object-oriented code, the way Flash apps are
> structured, and Fusebox. I'm not convinced that Flash can benefit from a
> Fusebox implementation. However, I do think that a slightly tweaked version
> of Fusedoc would be great for Flash movieclips.
>
> ---
> Paul Mone
> Ninthlink Consulting Group
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.ninthlink.com
> 619.222.7082
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 3:18 PM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: some cool tutorials I'm working on
>
> That is interesting timing. I was just working on a "Flash-box" app myself.
>
> I am embedding a seperate .swf in each .cfm page for both the form input and
> the query display pages. The underlying interface for each movie comes from
> a shared library and it's a different movie clip for each movie which takes
> care of the data. Currently I know nothing of WDDX (so I am interested in
> seeing Steve's implementation of this) so I was planning on creating an xml
> document from the database in .asp on the server and then parsing that into
> the Flash movie clip.
>
> When I get the examples cleaned up I'll post them as well.
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> ************************ Model Citizen ************************
> Since so many people have asked me about how you connect Flash to a
> Fusebox application I'm creating a series of tutorials on
> SecretAgents.com to do so.
>
> The cool part... instead of the display fuses containing HTML they
> output a WDDX packet. The WDDX is then passed into the Flash movie and
> the user interface is displayed there with the data passed in as WDDX.
>
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