[thelist] Automatically generating a SWF

[John Dowdell]

At 7:11 AM 7/21/3, Tim Burgan wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone can point me in the direction where
> I can find information about generating SWF (Macromedia Flash)
> file's directly from an ASP/HTML page, and how to manipulate
> that file. I hope that makes sense.

I'm not clear on the goal, sorry. An ASP/HTML page is a document, not an
application... I'm guessing you might be looking at doing some SWF
manipulation within an ASP server, but I'm not sure.


> Specifically, I want users on my site be able to select an
> audio file which they like, and I want to be able to take that
> audio file (WAV) and IMPORT it into layer 1 frame 1 of a SWF.

That's also ambiguous for me too, sorry. Chris had some suggestions. That
word "import" leads me to suspect you're thinking about choosing a file
from the visitor's local file system, but I'm not sure of that. That
specificity of "layer 1 frame 1" also makes me wonder whether you're trying
to actually physically construct a new file, rather than just letting
people choose what they want to hear.


But if you're actually trying to generate a SWF file programmatically, then
much can depend on what operating system is running on the machine which
will be doing this generation. After that the next thing to nail down would
be what type of structure or instructions you're starting with, and what
you'd like to end up with in that SWF.

Sorry my reply is so vague, but I can think of a couple of different
scenarios for the problem being described, and I'm not sure what is
actually being sought.

jd






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