[Xerte] Database

[James Bowman]

Thanks for the ideas.  I'm reviewing Xerte as a replacement for Authorware.
It appears that the amount of code that's needed to run my pieces exceeds my
capabilties at this point.

Jim

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Database


If you use Xerte's iconID.onSendAndLoad, then the data is available as a
de-serialised object. As Thomas says, you can also extend Xerte with
complex components that do anything that Flash can do, such as remoting.
You need to think through the architecture of a xerte application that
uses a lot of lot of external swf files to provide core functionality
carefully.

One advantage of that approach is that your components can be re-used in
different applications quite easily.

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Database

You can also create a Flash application and use Flash Remoting to
directly send whole database record sets from a server-side script to
the Flash application, which subsequently displays the database data for
example via Flash v2 components. You can then load this Flash
application into Xerte.

Using Flash Remoting saves you the hassle of serialising/deserialising
your database data, i.e. the database record set is immediately
available as a multidimensional object in Flash.

Here's a freely available PHP implementation of Flash Remoting:
http://amfphp.org/

Please let me know if you need any further information to use Flash
Remoting.

Cheers,

Thomas


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>
> Does Xerte send data to and receive data from databases like Microsoft

> Access or SqlServer?  I did a search in the archives but could not
> find discussions on this topic.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
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