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Is there something wrong with your '?' key???

Oh my gosh???

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:58 AM, mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com> wrote:
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> >>Yeah its not done in Flash per se, rather another program called Swish
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>  YIKES!! Not done in Flash!!! Ive never heard of Swish Max2, but.. um WOW!!!
>  Can you import what you have done INTO FLash! later???, seems like you have
>  done a lot of work in the wrong app.
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>  The most glaring omission with this as far as I can see, is not having the
>  ability to save. Now with your Swish thing, I dunno if you can get into the
>  code (and I already read that you dont know how to do it, but...) but you
>  are SOOO close to having a "killer app" here, I thought I would ask my
>  programmer how you should do it, to give you a nudge in the right
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>  Maybe you already know this, but just wanted to help!!
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>  Step 1: You of course need a database. - but you dont need to enter all
>  modules details or anything into it really... yet. Your app should do that.
>  Step 2: There should be a SAVE LAYOUT button. Oh.. and you will need each
>  USER to login.
>  step 3: When USER logs in, it makes them a unique ID number.
>  Step 4: Each Module also needs to have a ID number
>  Step 5: When the SAVE button is pressed, you need to send a function to
>  Javascript (Flash cannot write direct to a database-but can do VIA
>  Javascript)
>  This Function need to have 4 parameters to be saved in the database. The
>  User ID, The Module ID, The X coordinate of the module and the Y
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>  Multiple modules simply generate multiple entries in the database. There is
>  no need for the database to know anything about the modules (like width)
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>  user and the app handle that manually when they drag the module and it
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>  Now I realise that this is a simplistic view of things, and maybe you cant
>  do it in Swish Max, maybe you need to try to get it into REAL Flash??? (you
>  can rebuild your .swf into a flash file, there are apps for that... and I
>  know you said you cant afford flash... so I will say this only once, and
>  then hold my poisonous tongue... "torrents?") and I may have missed some
>  things... like you need to send delete info to the database too of course.
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>  Anyway, I thought you might like to at least have a "concept" to research
>  next???
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>  Great work, isn't it worth the extra push???
>  A few adverts around the edge, you might even make some money ha ha!!
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>  www.markfrancombe.com
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