I have a customer who has a news page (a page on their site that they update via an ASP script with their latest news). The records are stored in an Access database. This page currently only supports text, but they want to ability to add pictures to each record. I've done most of the work. I have written a script which converts jpgs to swfs so that they can be easily imported into flash 4 and up, and that all works fine. The problem is that, in order to get each record, the movie has to a) load the variables from the ASP script, and b) then load the swf that's referenced in the database record. Not only is this painfully slow, it also doesn't always work, because the movie doesn't block input while the picture movie loads, so it's possible to advance through several records while the movie is still loading the picture from the first, and thus mess everything up.
Has anyone done anything similar to this and retained all their hair? I'm really looking for your thoughts on how best to go about this, both to keep it quick and to make sure it doesn't break under any circumstance.
Has anyone done anything similar to this and retained all their hair? I'm really looking for your thoughts on how best to go about this, both to keep it quick and to make sure it doesn't break under any circumstance.