RE: FLASH: automatic updating in flash

[Joseph Scully]

Suzanne


I'm just back from a Macromedia seminar here in Dublin.

They were demo'ing the Flash4, Generator2, Dreamweaver3, Fireworks3,

Drumbeat2000 and the new ones...Freehand 9 and Director 8. Director8 looks

incredible!


..Anyway.....Generator2 does exactly what you want. You create a flash

movie, use it as a Generator template, link it to a database and hey presto

- a flash movie displaying dynamic data from a database. I'm sure that you

could write a script to reload a "dynamic" movie into your current movie

every 5mins or so. That would contain the most up-to-data data!


Unfortunately, only a handful of ISPs around the world support Generator at

the moment. You would need to be hosting your own web-site for the complete

Generator solution. 


I've probably missed the target with the above answer BUT I'm off out on the

town to get drunk!!

Have a good weekend!


Joe


-----Original Message-----

From: suzanne bolton [

suzybearlineone [dot] net (mailto:suzybearlineone [dot] net)

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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 3:48 AM

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Subject: FLASH: automatic updating in flash



I want to create a flash movie that draws information from a database

source.  Now, the database source will be constantly changing and the

results of which I want to display in a chart form ie. pie chart

Is it possible to set a command in flash to update information displayed

from this database automatically very five or so minutes without having to

do a manual refresh??

Hope this makes sense!!


thanks, suzanne 



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