Re: FLASH: line/bar graphing utility

[John Dowdell]

At 12:52 PM 2/11/99, alan dennis wrote:

> Does anyone know of a program/utility that programmatically produces

> flash movies/images from a delimited data file?


As Pete noted, Generator can do this, and more... see the Gallery on the

site and download a copy to test out for yourself. If you're not sure of

the number of datapoints then you may wish to prepare multiple templates...

not sure of which design may be best there.


Another approach is Director 7 and Shockwave. It can retrieve distant net

data and programmatically display parts of a Flash movie, or even use the

Flash rendering engine to display programmatically-determined curves.


(In essence, this is clientside pull of the data, and clientside processing

and display... Generator pushes new graphics out to clients, and is fully

server-side.)


Another option may be a new library from noted graphics research Paul

Haeberli. He's working on a C library which writes SWF files for display by

the Flash Player. More info at

http://reality.sgi.com/grafica/flash/

http://discuss.userland.com/msgReader$2737






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