Tricks & Data, Flash Yin & Yang
April 17, 2000
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Scenario: You are a web developer. You just learned
Flash. You are making mouse trails and twirling text galore, all
with a hip-hop (or techno) loop in the background. You even made
a Flash movie for your last client (or your company,
depending on employment status), who just happened to want mouse
trails and twirling text with hip-hop (or techno) in the
background. And you can at least install a simple CGI script.
(There will be some discussion of JavaScript, but it is not
necessary to be able to hand-code JS for this tutorial. Don't
put off learning it, though)!
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(I'm assuming that you have either gone through the
beginner's tutorial or
that you have a working knowledge of Flash rudiments).
You are itching to move on to the next level, but you're not sure
what it is. More snowballs in the mouse trail? Longer hip-hop (or
techno) loops? Multiple texts twirling in opposite wise
simultaneously?
You're in luck. A client, Bubba, just called, and he wants to hire
you to build a Flash application that will allow him to input and
display showtimes at his movie theatre, Bubba's Miniplex 1. He
also wants the movie to show as a full-screen display, and not
inside a browser window.
Bubba isn't a programmer. He isn't even a designer. He just wants
a website that can display showtimes. He doesn't want to learn
any new skills. In fact, bubba only wants a website "on accounta
cuz Luanne ties up the phone most a the time a-jawin' with the
gals," so folks can't get through to get the showtimes.
Let's get started.
Contents:
Getting Started
Load Variables
Text Fields and URL Encoded Data
Information Trapped Inside a Variable's Body
Planning an Escape
Perl, Little-known Sixth Shao Lin Animal
Make My Life EZ, DB
Setting up Bubba's DB
The Simplest HTML You Will Ever Code
Calling EZDB from Flash
Flash With Panache
A Place for Every User, Every User in His Place
When You Can Cut-and-Paste the Pebble From My Hand
Stirring Up Trouble on the American Frontier
Tricks & Data, Flash Yin & Yang
Getting Started
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