Baldur2630
02-06-2009, 12:26 AM
I'm trying to do too many things at once I fear. I'm trying to learn Flash and Action Scripting, but there are more important things as well
As you may or may not know, Novell are giving away FREE a 5-User copy of Novell Open Workgroup Suite for Small Businesses. Not restricted and not time-bombed and companies can buy additional licences up to 200 users.
The problem is, unlike a Microsoft Suite, which makes all the decisions for you, this is SuSE 10 Enterprise Server with eDirectory and GroupWise plus lots of other stuff and the installer has to make all the decisions.
If you have ever tried to read Novell's documentation you will know it SUCKS, big time, so knowing there are a lot of folks out there who would like a copy of N.O.W.S, I'm trying to do a FREE, "How to install it and configure it" which would be almost impossible for a non computer literate person, very difficult for someone who doesn't know eDirectory (NDS) and horrific for anyone non-Linux / UNIX.
Basically, I've done a PowerPoint series of slides which Í want to convert to Flash. Quite a few of these slides need extra explanation.
My wife does Dreamweaver + PHP + MySQL websites, (but not Flash), I'm trying to learn Flash, but I don't know Dreamweaver and I a do Technical Support for our customers who use Novell Products.
Our idea is that we add an extra button to every slide that needs more detailed explanation and I create a MySQL Database with a Table for the Presentation and the table has two fields - 1, the Slide Identifier and 2. The text I want to display.
When the user gets to a slide that needs more detailed explanation they click on a button which says "Morë Info" and this passes the Slide Identifier via PHP to the database wnich returns the text which then displays in a pop-up window and when the user closes the pop up, they are returned to the slide they were viewing.
Every Slide is in it's own frame. All I need to know is how to pass the identifier for the slide when the user clicks the button with action script, to where Dreamweaver / PHP can get hold of it. After that my wife can do the rest.
Is there perhaps a way to associate a number with each slide (there are more than 200 of them!) I used a free program called PowerPoint to Flash, which works beautifully.
Maybe someone can help me (maybe they even want a 5-User N.O.W.S. SMB!)
As you may or may not know, Novell are giving away FREE a 5-User copy of Novell Open Workgroup Suite for Small Businesses. Not restricted and not time-bombed and companies can buy additional licences up to 200 users.
The problem is, unlike a Microsoft Suite, which makes all the decisions for you, this is SuSE 10 Enterprise Server with eDirectory and GroupWise plus lots of other stuff and the installer has to make all the decisions.
If you have ever tried to read Novell's documentation you will know it SUCKS, big time, so knowing there are a lot of folks out there who would like a copy of N.O.W.S, I'm trying to do a FREE, "How to install it and configure it" which would be almost impossible for a non computer literate person, very difficult for someone who doesn't know eDirectory (NDS) and horrific for anyone non-Linux / UNIX.
Basically, I've done a PowerPoint series of slides which Í want to convert to Flash. Quite a few of these slides need extra explanation.
My wife does Dreamweaver + PHP + MySQL websites, (but not Flash), I'm trying to learn Flash, but I don't know Dreamweaver and I a do Technical Support for our customers who use Novell Products.
Our idea is that we add an extra button to every slide that needs more detailed explanation and I create a MySQL Database with a Table for the Presentation and the table has two fields - 1, the Slide Identifier and 2. The text I want to display.
When the user gets to a slide that needs more detailed explanation they click on a button which says "Morë Info" and this passes the Slide Identifier via PHP to the database wnich returns the text which then displays in a pop-up window and when the user closes the pop up, they are returned to the slide they were viewing.
Every Slide is in it's own frame. All I need to know is how to pass the identifier for the slide when the user clicks the button with action script, to where Dreamweaver / PHP can get hold of it. After that my wife can do the rest.
Is there perhaps a way to associate a number with each slide (there are more than 200 of them!) I used a free program called PowerPoint to Flash, which works beautifully.
Maybe someone can help me (maybe they even want a 5-User N.O.W.S. SMB!)