Flash wishes...

[Christian Cook]

JD wrote:


(Even if the goal cannot be achieved today, it would be useful for folks

here to know what types of things clients are wanting from designers

that can't yet be done, thanks.)



Did an intranet site for the financial group Doughty Hanson & Co and we

were attempting to get Excel sheets into the browser. When we saved as

HTML from Excel, it looked horrific (Much like a squirrel that's been

dragged through a traffic wardens arse backwards - don't visualize.

Leave it conceptual.) Anyway, annoyingly enough we discovered that

embedded linked Excel sheets would update live in Flash during authoring

mode but not in plugin mode as it seemed to convert it to a bitmap or

something. I know its probably a security issue but it would be nice to

have embedded linked Excel/Word type stuff that updates live from

external files in the plugin environment (Great for intranets).


Also- In Netscape, if you click on an HTML hotlink that links to an

.exe, you get a save or open option (just the same in IE) but in

Shockwave Flash, a URL to an .exe will only give the save option

(Netscape only). In IE it still gives an open option too so we had to

persuade the clients to go all IE (which was a shame because using

Microsoft products is often like being sellotaped to a squirrel that's

about to be dra..enough said)


So anyhow, if these two things could be sorted put or explained then I'd

be happy as a squirrel that actually enjoys it.



Someone else entirely.


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	Sent:  25 March 1998 20:09

	To:

flashershocker [dot] com

	Subject:  Re: FORMS in flash?


	At 4:36 PM 3/24/98, Chad Richard wrote:

	>Does anyone know if it is possible to have a form input in a

flash movie?


	Flash doesn't have typing import, if that's what you seek. We

can control

	things like which frame displays within the tool, but we can't

type letters

	into the runtime version on the client like that.


	But what is it that you're trying to accomplish? What is the

client

	demanding of you? There may be ways to achieve the goal today by

using the

	browser's scripting together with Flash.


	(Even if the goal cannot be achieved today, it would be useful

for folks

	here to know what types of things clients are wanting from

designers that

	can't yet be done, thanks.)


	What is it that you'd like to accomplish...?


	jd




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