That's the easy part.  I can build a flash app that checks to see if
it's connected and if so use remoting or web services to put the data
from the SharedObject into the database and then clear out the
SharedObject.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 3:51 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: SOLVED: desktop application

The SOs will not solve you "phone home" issue though ;-)

Bryan Stevenson B.Comm.
VP & Director of E-Commerce Development
Electric Edge Systems Group Inc.
t. 250.920.8830
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  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Burns, John D
  To: CF-Talk
  Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 12:48 PM
  Subject: SOLVED: desktop application

  Adam's suggestion was perfect.  Flash SharedObject in MX does exactly
  what I needed.  Thanks to everyone who chimed in.

  John Burns

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Adrocknaphobia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 3:31 PM
  To: CF-Talk
  Subject: Re: desktop application

  JB,

  Just store everything in the shared objects (flash cookies) and do a
  sync when the compuetr is online via remoting or xml.

  -adam

  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  > Sent: Friday, April 2, 2004 08:27 PM
  > To: 'CF-Talk'
  > Subject: RE: desktop application
  >
  > Ok, but how do I actually write to that xml file?  I know flash can
  > read, but is there a method for writing to an xml file?
  >
  > John Burns
  >
  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 3:04 PM
  > To: CF-Talk
  > Subject: Re: desktop application
  >
  > 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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  > www.cfug-vancouverisland.com
  >   ----- 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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