Director 7 & Databases 1

[twpb]

If anyone could please tell me if it is possible to connect<br>a Director movie to any sort of database I would be very, very grateful. <br>If its not, a simple &quot;no it can't be done&quot; will be good <br>(well it wont be too good but thats life).

 

[Horrid]

You can do dbase work provided you are willing to step out of the director environment and into javascript or Visual Basic.<br>You can use the external events to send a message to whatever you are communicating with, let it do the database work and send back the result.<br><br>VB is recomended cause it is so easy.<br><br>There are probably better ways but this works.

 

[DJTN]

You can also use a data base Xtra like V12DBE. which comes with a director library and is quite simple and free. You can get it at the macromedia website.<br><br>Todd<br><img src=

http://www.Tek-Tips.com/images/happy.gif>

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[Guest_imported]

Actually what I wanted to do is...<br><br>call a webpage with values from a dcr movie. Such as player name and score - pass this in to a database (asp, cf) via an encoded url - but every time I try to create the string to call in director lingo - it just doesn't work.<br><br>i wanna call <br>&lt;b&gt;&quot;<A HREF="

http://www.bluesauce.com/score/addinscore.cfm?username=&quot"

TARGET="_new">

http://www.bluesauce.com/score/addi...quot;+score=&quot;+score&lt;/b&gt;<br><br>Any

ideas? The the uRL encoding that's killing me!<br><br>Cheers<br><br><br>Fred<br>

 

[Horrid]

Hmmm...It has to do with the additional header info that normally gets sent with it. The header info is will look something like content-type: form/multipart or application/x-

http://www-?????&nbsp;&nbsp;I'm

trying the same thing with Visual Basic and it isn't nice.<br><br>You could however probably have director call a javascript handeler that fills the required field (document.forms[0].elements[0].value = &quot;data passed by shockwave&quot; (by setting their values) then triggering the submit button(document.forms[0].submit (or something similar).&nbsp;&nbsp;You dont have to worry about the URL if you do it that way.&nbsp;&nbsp;I recommend going with the Xtra DTJN suggested though.<br>

 

[Marshy]

A-ha, my same problem too, kinda. Hopefully somone out there can help. Basically we want to take one of our sites which is server driven using CF and ASP, and make it useable on a stand alone CDRom. Any ideas? We have been looking at 4D and V12, but don't know much abotu it, they seem just like normal databases. We want to draw the information we have together, (text and images), to form a page, possible? Thanks webm8@hotmail.com

 

[webpixels]

>> DJTN (Programmer)
Jul 12, 2000

You can also use a data base Xtra like V12DBE. which comes with a director library and is quite simple and free. You can get it at the macromedia website. <<


My question to v12dbe:

How does it work when publishinga director file?
Browsers tell, they couldn't find this xtra, though it lays within the default folder of that dir-file....

regards

webpixels

 

[webpixels]

now that I installed that v12dbe in Dir it works right; but how to stop the alert that shows the integrated tool?

regards

webpixels