No, I understand how to get from XML to the DB, but if the Flash file is
running directly on a client machine (CF not installed and no internet
connection) how do I get Flash to write the input to a text or xml file
for upload later?

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Brook Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 3:41 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: desktop application

"suck the data out of the XML file and stuff it in the DB"

Bryan, your getting way too technical man. I'm having trouble following
all
of this high tech terminology!    ;)

Brook

At 12:04 PM 4/2/2004, you wrote:

>Yep you could build a standalone Flash app that runs as a projector
>(.exe file on computer in question).  The app could store the
>registrations in an XML file....later you can suck the data out of the
>XML file and stuff it in the DB
>
>Bryan Stevenson B.Comm.
>VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group
>Inc.
>t. 250.920.8830
>e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Burns, John D
>   To: CF-Talk
>   Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 11:58 AM
>   Subject: SOT: desktop application
>
>   I have a question about what the best practice would be for creating
a
>   desktop application.  I do websites for some different bands, and
they
>   all have an e-mail sign-up on their website.  Most of them also have
>   some kind of a paper sign-up at concerts for people to sign up for
the
>   email list.  I was considering building an app that would run on a
>   desktop to allow people at concerts to enter their email address and
>   write it to a text or xml file that could then be uploaded to the
>   webserver and parsed into the database.
>
>   My question is what would be the best method to do this?  I was
thinking
>   of doing the front end in Flash but I'm not sure how to write to a
file
>   from there.  In theory, this app would need to work on a mac and a
pc.
>   Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
>   John Burns
>
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