Re: FLASH: Flash4 and forms

[Nigel Randsley-Pena]

Brian,


You don't need a text field for this.

Have each area of the map clickable, either by converting each area to a

button or by placing an invisible button over each area on the map.

Place the following action on each button, for Scotland it would be :

On (Release)

      Set Variable: "choice" = "Scotland"

      Get URL ("/path_to/file.cgi", vars=GET)

End On

This will do what you need.

A variation on this is :

On (Release)

      Get URL ("/path_to/file.cgi?choice=Scotland")

End On


These examples are based on GET. I have noticed that most posters don't

know when to use GET or POST so as an added bonus some tips.

In pratical terms GET and POST are nearly identical. So when do we use

one or the other.

Well first an important distinction results returned from GET may be

cached while results returned from POST are not cached.

Simple rule to decide when to use GET and when to use POST.

When you send information back to the server this information may or may

not change the server's state. If the information you are sending back

will NOT change the servers state use GET if i will change the server's

state use POST.

So if the information you send back will go into a database for example

or will be written to a file on the server, then we have a change of

state and POST should be used other cases GET is OK.


Nigel


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