Fw: FLASH: Editable E-mail signatures ?

[p-h]

... Sorry to be so insistent - I'm due to make a report to my client

tomorrow morning and I sill haven't found a suitable solution... Help

welcome ! :o)




| Hello hello ! I just had another "crazy" idea, which in the principle

seems

| OK but will need some kind assistance as far as the code is concerned. As

| stated below, I was looking for a solution to send "flash" signatures in

| e-mails. I think I found something (at least it seems it will work for a

| majority of recipients) :

|

| publish on the web a blank HTML page with just the .swf banner

| open MSIE and "tools/mail and news/send page"-it

| type in the body of the mail in outlook

| send the whole - et voilà ! :o)

|

| Now about the "crazy" idea, I already implemented the possibility to

| remotely edit text variables to sort of create "new" updated banners quite

| easily - it works fine. Now I'm wondering if the principle couldn't be

| extended to the modification of GRAPHIC variables, by adding something

like

|

| &background=red

|

| for instance, and by ActionScript read the value or the variable

| "background" and from there go to a frame labelled "red" where, of course,

| the background will be set to red.

|

| That would allow for simple, basic visual changes of the banner by the

| client, among a small choice of presets.

| Your opinion about this is welcome (and I would be most grateful if some

of

| you could provide me with the starting lead as how to actually implemend

| this ! :o)

|

| Now I tried this :

|

| If (background="red")

|       Go to and Stop ("red")

| Else If (background="green")

|       Go to and Stop ("green")

| Else

|       Go to and Stop ("End")

| End If

|

| But unfortunately the playback head stops on the "red" label and doesn't

go

| to the "green" one even if the "background" variable reads

| "&background=green" from the text file :o(

|

| Any idea ?

|

| Thank you & Nice day to all

|

| P-H Steyt

|

| | Hi all !

| |

| | I am requested to develop banner-like signatures that my client will

send

| at

| | the bottom of his e-mails.

| | This would not be too difficult with [insert picture] animated gifs

| | (although it appears that some recipients get the file as an attachment

| | instead of in the body of the mail, and some even don't get anything at

| | all...)

| |

| | This is thus my first question : how to be sure the recipients can

| properly

| | view the "regular" (animated gifs) banners ?

| |

| | It gets a little more tricky with the additional request that those

| banners

| | should be easily and quickly editable by the client (typically variables

| | such as a "promo valid until..." date or a product price, etc.), with as

| | little work and knowledge as possible.

| |

| | So I started developping a flash banner using the "load variable into

| | location" feature of Flash4. The client just has to edit a small .txt

file

| | like this :

| |

| | date=..../..../....

| | &discount= ....

| |

| | and upload it to a spedific loation on his website (only one ftp program

| | involved, so I think it's the simplest approach possible...)

| |

| | It works just fine either locally and from the internet

| | (http://www.europ-digital-business.net/banners/test/bannerTest1.html).

| | Now the second question is : how can one "insert" (ideally automatically

| so)

| | that flash banner in signature at the bottom of the emails ?

| | Any hint most welcome, for I tried several options and really can't

figure

| | out how to do this (the "signature" options in Outlook for insctance do

| not

| | allow HTML insertion...).

| |

| | Thank you in advance

| |

| | P-H Steyt

|

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