Re: FLASH: Managing a list with MS Excel

[Helen Triolo]

JGL wrote:

> 

> Here's a quick tute for managing a list in excel to be displayed in flash .

> 

> http://www.designthenet.com/tutes/excellist/

> 

JGL,


Thanks for posting this -- it's a good example of how to create and

format something so you can read it into Flash as one large

already-formatted variable.  I think you should expand the paragraph

that talks about encoding though to explain why you do that.  Something

like "First, create the excel file with the data you want to display. 

Then think about how you would like the data to be displayed in Flash. 

Add columns to your spreadsheet as necessary to create this formatting. 

For example, we added a column with %0D%20%20%20 after the first column

to insert a carriage return (or linefeed or whatever it is) and three

spaces before the information in the next column is printed."  It's

pretty clear once you look at the fla and the excel file what you're

doing, but not when you first look at the page.  OK, taking off my

teacher hat and going back to work now...  Thanks for taking the time to

create this example; I think it'll be useful to many people.


Helen

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