RE: FLASH: display results from database - amount of results is a variable

[James Mansfield]

Title: RE: FLASH: display results from database - amount of results is a variable

Not sure exactly what you mean but you could set up a scrolling text box that gets populated with text depending on the variables returned. A text box that lists all the data and if there is more than can fit on one screen it gets added with in the scrolling window. The only problem with this is that I do not know if you can have carriage returns within the actual scrolling box which is very annoying.

I think your best option is generator. Generator can dynamically generate lists, tables, charts etc within a flash file and it can even dynamically generate functions for the dynamically changed data. It comunicates with ASP as you are doing now and from all reports is excellent for this kind of work. I however do not a great deal of experience with it and this is just information I have gained from my brief experience.

-----Original Message-----
From: mbainza [dot] ibm [dot] com [mbainza [dot] ibm [dot] com (mailto:mbainza [dot] ibm [dot] com)]
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 4:09 PM
To: flashershocker [dot] com
Subject: FLASH: display results from database - amount of results is a
variable

Hi...

Let my pose a question which I just cant answer ..

I have a form in flash that submits a query to an ASP script - the script
returns the results and I can display them ijn flash fine.
My problem is this ......if I have 10 results i can show them all on 1 screen
....if I have 20 results i need to show them on 2 seperate screen etc etc etc
......how will I provide for either enough screens to show all the results
without limiting them ..or..showing the "next 10" of results using the same
frame but replacing the variables.

my variables come back as
name1=value&car1=value&name2=value2&car2=value2&name3=value3&car3=value3 etc etc
depending on how many resu;lts the search returns ....flash then parses these
into variables ...all are still fine ...but now ....how to i create the form to
display them ...if i never know how many will be returned as every search will
have a different amount of lines (ie variables) in the result.

With HTML it was easy ....you just made the ASP pop out html ....and the page
would just contain as much lines as there are results......which the user then
just scrolled down .....but this is not the case with flash ....i really wanna
display the results in flash too instead of in a html page ...

Any ideas ...anyone else have the same problem / has a fix / tutorial anything
to help ?
I REALLY hope sumone can help me with this one :o)

Michael Bain
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