Re: FLASH: Dynamically populated, scrollable, selectable text

[Neal Cabage]

Wow - this is really great!  I thought for sure this would be where I

reached the limits of Flash4 interactivity.  Guess not!  Well, this leaves

me with two questions as I guess these rest will answer themselves as I dig

into the examples.


1. How did you know about this site? Is it a common-knowledge resource

amongst Flashers?  I know Moock and Macromedia and that's about it (not that

these  - especially Moock aren't already great resources) ... but that's all

I know of online.


2. the term "widget" has popped up acouple of times today.  I looked it up

in the Flash "help topics" but to no avail.  What does this term mean

exactly?  Being a developer, I can't help but to get a little giddy at the

possibility that there's some SDK with which you can develop extension

objects (eg COM/COBRA).  I know this is doubtful ... but I have to ask

anyway.   ;-)


Thanks!


Oh - one more question.  I tried to send a ZIP file with proof-of-concept to

answer the question of how to read in variables into Flash but I didn't see

it post. Do emails with attachments get filtered out?



Neal Cabage





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From: Mark Zukiwsky <

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Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 4:01 AM

Subject: Re: FLASH: Dynamically populated, scrollable, selectable text



> Further to my previous post, I ended up building the interface widget

> using Pipey's listbox.fla example. I just added a scene that loads my

> variables and deleted a few of Pipey's buttons. No changes to Pipey's

> code at all.

>

> I'm getting my vars from a Coldfusion template. The template uses a

> random post variable to fetch menu data for one of two choices, so if

> you re-load, the menu should update with new data. You can find the

> widget at:

>

>   http://mark.foxmicro.net/flashmenu/

>

> Is that what you were looking for Neal?

>

> Mark Zukiwsky

> Edmonton, Canada

>

>

> my previous post:

>   -----------------------------------------------------------------

> Check out Pipey's interface widgets:

>

>   http://www.pipey.ndirect.co.uk/freeflash/listbox.fla

>

>   http://www.pipey.ndirect.co.uk/freeflash/combobox.fla

>

> Both examples generate scrolling lists. Just use your ASP data to

> populate the lists. Simply substitute Pipey's arrays with your ASP

> data and work from there.

>

> Hope this helps. BTW, nice work Pipey!

>

>

> Neal Cabage wrote:

>

> >I have abit of a complex question I think.  I program ASP and often find

the

> >opportunity to dynamically populate a listBox of options (eg a list of

> >states for example).  This is great for then being able to select an

option

> >form that list.

> >

> >Well, in Flash I have figured out how to pass in data enough to populate

a

> >multilined field which will give me the same presentation effect ... but

i

> >need to be able to make this info all selectable.  If I make a scrollable

> >list of state options, it's really of no use to me unless a user can then

> >use that list to select the applicable choice.

> >

> >Is there some way to either  track the selected line of text of return

the

> >text the user has chosen or something?   Can anyone think of any

> >suggestions.  I am affraid the use of Flash4 as an HTML alternative for a

> >front-end to things like shopping carts and dynamic sites is really qiute

> >limited without this ability.

>

>



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