[thelist] Flash version of Heirmenus

[Erik Mattheis]

>Along the same lines...Are there any flash generators (aside from Generator
>itself) that can create graphs and charts.

Don't know the particular answer, but one can make a chart template 
type thing and pass it variables through the HTML to have it display 
different data ... or change the chart with a loadVariables action 
... the concepts to look up in the documentation are movie clip, set 
property and load variables. It's real nifty and easy ... would be 
happy to send bare bones examples off list.

>Another quick question...Can the Flash movie persist the state, so that a
>downloaded file would continue to hold the user's data.

Not without running Generator in on-line mode, and even then, the 
visitor would have to have the stand alone player, which comes with 
the Flash authoring app to open it outside of the browser.

Closest thing you could do would be to create a projector in which 
the visitor could enter a login name which would tell it to 
loadVariables for their data from your server - projectors are kinda 
large, like 500K. Otherwise if the user had Quicktime 5 and you made 
the movie Flash 4 compatible, they could open the SWF in Quicktime.
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- Erik Mattheis

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