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[sawfish]

Part of my MSc project is going to involve designing a site in Flash, one of the problems is that I am going to have to find a way to allow the client to update images on the flash site themselves. I'm not sure how to start going about this, it would have to involve something along the lines of logging onto a page, browsing to an image then uploading it, in order to overwrite the image already there. I'm just wondering if this is possible maybe with the use of ASP, ideally just by using Flash MX though. Also, are there any books anyone would recommend for this sort of project?

thanks.

 

[billwatson]

the easiest way is to a 3rd party tool. this one is good and handles what you want

http://www.swift-tools.com/

this is a workaround but it will only work in IE

http://www.flashcfm.com/tutorial_search.cfm?keyword=upload

havent tried this but heard promising reports

http://www.impulsedigital.com/idio/idio-v1/

 

[sawfish]

Thanks a lot, could you perhaps recommend a good book?

 

[billwatson]

not specific to your project but the best book on actionscript is

actionscript: the definative guide ver 2
by colin moock

 

[omniSprinter]

you could try a dynamic soultion loading the image from an xml file or some server script.
the person could upload the new jpg along with updating say the xml file (change a path using notepad). then when flash runs it reads the new path and loads the new jpg

 

[sawfish]

That seems like another good suggestion, do you reckon that would be easy enough for a code novice like myself?

 

[omniSprinter]

Sure you can do it,
first learn how to load xml data into flash

a couple quick links

http://www.informit.com/content/index.asp?product_id={ED929206-BECD-4431-993B-B1579241C785}

http://www.synaptic-gap.co.uk/FlashTutorial/

http://actionscript-toolbox.com/xmlobject.php

hope this helps,

omnisprinter

http://www.myopicsociety.com

 

[billwatson]

sawfish,

just came across a component that allows up loads

http://www.yamago.net/components/

i am going to try it out myself as it will be a useful tool to have.

 

[sawfish]

just found a cool flash program called 'flash studio pro 1.9'. if you go to the address below and download the bottom zipfile, it allows flash to upload to a server!

http://www.multidmedia.com/software/flashstudio/downloads/