Robert, The data based stuff is pretty recent in terms of Flash, and I guess most of the Flash community hasn't caught onto it yet - after all, it is primarily a tool for content designers (and for some pretty good games too) so most of the people using it are not database minded. But Macromedia are making a play for this market, and it might be a good thing to keep an eye on: if it works out you would get the level of interactivity that is sorely lacking in 'traditional' web applications, without having to reinvent your own plugin or client or java app. Flash is pretty ubiquitous, and has public acceptance, amongst communities and sites that won't allow users to run java apps or other third party activex in their browsers.
It wouldn't be a simple or cheap solution, particularly at this stage - writing Flash dialogs is hard work - until someone does something to capitalize on it. There are already plenty of (considerably cheaper) tools that produce flash content without having to use Flash as the actual designer, so it may only be a question of time before someone with the money and time realises the potential there and comes up with a suitable tool. Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Colquhoun Sent: 20 April 2004 12:56 To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: RE: GUI as nice as character-based Hello Brian, At 09:21 PM 20/04/2004, Brian Leach wrote: > >>I was hoping Ross would recognise the possiblity that Windows might > >>go the >same way despite current market domination. > >So write your clients in Delphi - Continuing the series of google links, if you are interested in the relative popularity of various languages have a look here: http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/tekst.htm (scary how much php has moved up lately!) Or if you want browser based cross platform - is anyone on the list using >Macromedia flash to talk to U2 through web services? I haven't had the >chance to experiment with that yet :-( but AFAIK flash is available as >a plug in on Windows, Linux and Mac and it should be possible to do >some pretty good interactive stuff using that combination ... To be honest i spend ages on the web and have not noticed any data oriented stuff done in flash, all the flash stuff i have seen has been graphic oriented...do macromedia have any references? - Robert -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ________________________________________________________________________ This email was checked by MessageLabs SkyScan before entering Microgen. ________________________________________________________________________ This email was checked on leaving Microgen for viruses, similar malicious code and inappropriate content by MessageLabs SkyScan. DISCLAIMER This email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information. In the event of any technical difficulty with this email, please contact the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microgen Information Management Solutions http://www.microgen.co.uk -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
