Loading Variables

[albie101]

I have a flash movie that needs to load a whole heap of data and I'm not sure what the best way to do it is. The flash is embedded in an ASP page, and the data is coming from either a database or an xml file, we haven't decided which yet. Can someone help me out and let me know the best way to load this data?
It all needs to be loaded before the movie starts, and as performance is the biggest hurdle I don't want to be hitting the database too often.
Cheers,
Emma

 

[frozenpeas]

FlashMX supports XML... there are books on it, tutorials, etc.

Here is a good spot to do some reading:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/scripting.htm

frozenpeas

 

[billwatson]

although improvement has been made flash can be very slow in parsing large XML files.

if you want to use xml then best to break it up into smaller chunks rather than one hit.

sounds like you will be best with remoting though. however if you are stuck with asp remoting may turn out not to be cost effevtive.

you might want to look at

http://www.flashorb.com/