Depends also on the amount of data intended for transfer. The XML parser xtra is incredibly slow, so if we're talkin huges tuff, I do not recommend it.
Where to find info? I do not know. Combining Director apps with online databases is somewhat "cross science", in the meaning that there are a lot of sites that lingo, and a lot of sites with great resources for asp, but there's none about combining them. You might find hints at forum's like DOUG, or i guess Rosenzweig's "advanced lingo for games could give you a hint" but... To achieve what you intend, you 1# need to know lingo 2# need basic knowledge of any serverside scripting (asp, cgi, perl, etc.) 3# need to know about director's way to handle netops And then you need to do what software designers/architects always do. Envision the task and slice it up into components, then start coding components, and test&fix&code&test&fix... Pekka > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Chris Aernoudt > Sent: 30. lokakuuta 2001 11:57 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: <lingo-l> director and online database > > > Depends on the website. > If it's ASP & MSSQL eg. will be lot easier to put a little asp > app up that > reads from a db and writes the output - at least that's what I would do, > since I know ASP and not XML. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom Vandenbossche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 10:50 AM > Subject: Re: <lingo-l> director and online database > > > > Isn't it more interesting then to use the xml parser xtra? > > > > > > on 30/10/01 09:35, Chris Aernoudt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Jo Tom, > > > > > > Use ASP - write your output to the requested page... > > > set the contenttype to text/html like this: > > > > > > Response.ContentType = "text/HTML" > > > > > > then write all the stuff you need with Response.Write "blabla" > > > > > > Do not put head or body or whatever tags in it, because everything you > write > > > to the page will get send to director - no html stuff! > > > > > > Use getNetText to pul the stuff out. > > > You can put ?blabla after the url to pass params like > > > www.blabla.com?ID=blabla > > > > > > then you can retrieve that with Request.Querystring in your asp page. > > > > > > For the rest you'll need to learn ASP or ask your collegues or go to > > > www.asp101.com > > > > > > HTH, > > > Chris. > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Tom Vandenbossche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: "Lingo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 8:45 AM > > > Subject: <lingo-l> director and online database > > > > > > > > >> Hi list > > >> > > >> Is it possible to let the projector (made in D8.5) > communicate with an > > >> online database. The purpose is that the information found on the > cd-rom > > > is > > >> exactly up to date as on the website. If this is possible where can i > find > > >> more information on this topic. > > >> > > >> Another thing i want to know if it is possible to put asp based > websites > > > on > > >> a cd-rom where it still works competely. > > >> > > >> THX > > >> > > >> Tom > > >> > > >> > > >> [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest > mode, go to > > >> http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to > the list, > > >> email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > >> Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > > > http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, > > > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > > > > > > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > > http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, > > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > > > > > > > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
