Re: [Flashcoders] Append variables to SWF server-side

2007-02-28 Thread Mick G
The reason I want this server side is the SWFs are loading dynamic content via a database, and I want users to be able to download a SWF with this dynamic data embedded in the swf so they can use it in their own websites. I did find this tool which looks promising (allbeit limiting)

Re: [Flashcoders] Append variables to SWF server-side

2007-02-27 Thread Cay Garrido H.
search FlashVars ;) Mick G escribió: Does anyone know if there is a way to add data to a SWF file server-side? Eg. I have a swf that site on my server. I want users to be able to select an option from a dropdown such as Select a color: BLUE. This would then send them a SWF to download that

Re: [Flashcoders] Append variables to SWF server-side

2007-02-27 Thread T. Michael Keesey
That seems pretty inefficient. Why not just make a Flash Var with the color and have the SWF render that dynamically? I remember some solutions along those lines (including Macromedia Generator) circa 2000, but it just wasn't a great way of doing things like that. SWFs already have

Re: [Flashcoders] Append variables to SWF server-side

2007-02-27 Thread Mike and Stephie
HI Mick ! Consider the open source utility SWFMill Providing the server is compatible with one of it's builds then 1. Get a PHP to do : swfmill swf2xml [swfname.swf] [file.xml] 2. Edit the XML file which step 1 produces from PHP 3. Get PHP to do: swfmill xml2swf [fiel.xml] [swfname.swf]

Re: [Flashcoders] Append variables to SWF server-side

2007-02-27 Thread Andy Herrman
So, how is the user viewing the SWF? Is it embedded in an HTML page? If so, you could just make those parameters defined in the HTML, and then have the SWF know to look for the parameters at runtime. The SWFs I use do a lot of that. -Andy On 2/26/07, Mick G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does

Re: [Flashcoders] Append variables to SWF server-side

2007-02-27 Thread Alain Rousseau
You should look into flasm (http://flasm.sourceforge.net/) or any code injecting software out there Mick G wrote: Does anyone know if there is a way to add data to a SWF file server-side? Eg. I have a swf that site on my server. I want users to be able to select an option from a dropdown