Yes!! Yes!! Yes!! Thank You All!

[zzcoopzz]

I feel so friggen cool right now and there is now one around me to appreciate it... I'm having one of those IT WORKS, IT WORKS moments.

This may seem simple to most of you but a huge leap for me in flash, and I'm feeling rather special :)

For the past week I have been trying to make a fully dynamic video player that will call in icons, text, file names, and video, so my client can update without having to open Flash.

For the past week I have been banging my head against the wall in frustration.

How do I dynamically upload a movie file without using flash?
how do I call a text field that updates all text pertaining to that clip?
How do I make a pre loader for the individual clips that lives in a MC?
How do I do all this without knowing how to write code?

any way, many questions many wrong turns, and finally VICTORY!!!

so here it is if any one is curios too see what I have been working on. it is only one section of the site, and everything from the text to the icons to the video is just placeholder, but I think you will get the idea.

http://www.cardboardcastle.com/clients/fugitives/

Thanks to everyone here that helped me on this project, I definitely wouldn't have been able to do what can now with out this forum.

cooper

[mmm..pi..3.14..]

Cool site :)

Did you use XML to make that work??, that would definitly be my choice ;)

Eric

[Morg]

Looking real good man! Just one observation if I may... You might want to look into embedding your fonts and enlarging hit states of your player controls... They be TINY! :) sometimes hard to click...

Other than that. velly nice, me likes!

[zzcoopzz]

"Did you use XML to make that work??"

That will be the next big thing I start looking into is PHP and XML, but until then I don't even have the faintest idea of how to use them. What I have done is pretty simple actually. the icons are loaded in with a simple loadmovie script, the text is dynamically loaded from a txt document, and the video is compressed and saved out as an SWF file from Sorensen squeeze, then called with a simple load movie.

I think if the site was any more complicated I might have to look into XML and PHP sooner then I want to. right now I need to understand flash a bit better first before I try to understand that beast.

"You might want to look into embedding your fonts and enlarging hit states of your player controls"

I appreciate any and all feedback, thank you. the hit states were just an over site, but thanks for pointing out, I might have forgot to put them in. and the embedding fonts I totally forgot about, and just spent the last half hour learning how to do that again. much different then Flash 3. thanks for pointing that one out as well.

cooper