ASP Interaction

[FreshJava]

Is it possible to open a asp page inside the flash player or current flash page.
Let me expound on what I am trying to accomplish. I am creating a new e-commerce page, I want my first page to be complete flash, flash buttons and animation. I want to connect to the asp page and query the products catalog but for navigation reasons I would like to stay with in the original page. I have searched the net for a couple of days now with no luck. I am not even sure that what I am proposing is even possible but, so far I havn't found a yea or nay on the subject. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

 

[wangbar]

This depends on exactly what you want to accomplish - if you want to build a complete page dynamically (as is possible in an HTML/ASP type environment) then you're not going to be able to get what you want in Flash.

However if what you want to do is to take a Flash template and populate it with dynamic data from the server via ASP or some other middleware technology then you're in luck.

Via loadVariables() and getURL you can import data from an ASP, PHP or ColdFusion page and generate new content in your Flash movie either in the form of dynamic text fields or by using the loaded dynamic variables to influence other behavior (such as gotoAndStop() at a particular frame etc.).

 

[FreshJava]

Thanks wangbar!
The latter is exactly what I want. I appreciate the push in the right direction.