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    haidy

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    hello everybody,

    exactly what i am trying to do is:

    i want to make a flash movie that is used offline, and this movie has a huge array of data that is used inside the movie (names of employee their id and...), and i want to link my flash movie to an access or excel table instead of writing this array inside the code, to make editing more easy, but i dont want to use any server side script no asp , cgi, php, perl,.......at all ,
    i just wanna use xml and the excel or access table  and any client side code making this code read the table and creates the xml used by flash ,, can this happen???,, and how???
    hope i have made it more clear.


    this is v imp dont let me down




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    Re:simple qu: offline flash and access database
    « Reply #1 on: 06/18/02, 01:48 »
    Hi,

    what is the problem with cgi? You do not need a server to use a perl script; you can just write a script that reads your excel .csv file and creates text files suitable for your flash app from it. All you need is perl installed on your computer (check www.activestate.com)

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    haidy

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    Re:simple qu: offline flash and access database
    « Reply #2 on: 06/19/02, 04:01 »
    thanks alot,
    i know nothing about perl , can u please tell me what should i download in specific from this site to have perl installed on my machine, should i have a server on my machine to open this????, should i learn perl to use this ???? :o
    « Last Edit: 06/19/02, 04:05 by haidy »

    Ronald Wernecke

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    Re:simple qu: offline flash and access database
    « Reply #3 on: 07/19/02, 11:32 »

    thanks alot,
    i know nothing about perl , can u please tell me what should i download in specific from this site to have perl installed on my machine, should i have a server on my machine to open this????, should i learn perl to use this ???? :o


    You cannot without any programing.
    But VBA (VisualBasic for Applications), which is shipped with excel or Access, you can generate a file, wich can be read from flash.
    happy flashing
    8)
    Ronald