Slides and notes from “Flash to external data communication”

Posted May 31, 2006 9:08 am
Filed under: ActionScript, AS3, Flash, Flex, Presentations, Tutorials

As I mentioned last week, I gave a presentation to the Indiana University Multimedia Users’ Group on the topic of “Flash and external data communication.”

As promised, here are the slides, example files, and notes from that presentation.

“Flash and external data communication” slides and example code (288 KB .zip)
Recording of the presentation (I only got through about 2/3 of the slides)

I’ve added some notes to the slides, and some comments to the code in the FLAs. Feel free to comment or contact me directly if you have any questions or want to know more.

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http://knowledge.lapasa.net Mark Lapasa

I’m not from your area. I caught this entry via MXNA. I went over your PPTs and I must say nice job =)

Cheers,

-mL
bob

That’s great!!!
You are so kind! ^^
Ali

Hi Paul,

I missed your presentation but now able to review it and liked it.

I have a question. You say that in your presentation
“SWF files are set to load local files only or remote files only ‚Äì if you want to load the other type, it won‚Äôt work and you‚Äôll get an error message. There are several workarounds, ..
”

Can you share the work around for this problem? I used the executable file (instead of swf) but it even gave errors when I had local and remote files to load. The browser should be always open when the file is running. Is there a way to make it run?

Thanks
http://probertson.com/ Paul

Hi Ali,

The workarounds depend a little bit on what you’re trying to accomplish.

This reply got really long, so I decided to just post it as a new article:

Accessing local and remote resources in a locally running SWF
taimoor

Thats great effort,i am student of computer science,and want to get help about data com
Jan

Most interesting but why ‚Äì as a Flash expert ‚Äì did you put the presentation in a PowerPoint presentation?? Why not make a .swf?
http://probertson.com/ Paul

@Jan:

That’s definitely a valid question, I must sheepishly admit. =)

I guess the answer was that it didn’t really occur to me to build it in Flash. (So much for “thinking outside the box”.) I’ve built presentations in Flash before, but my feeling is that it would require more work to build a slide deck (from scratch) in Flash than it would in PowerPoint.

One of the projects I’ve had in the back of my head forever but haven’t built yet is a presentation tool built in Flash. Maybe someday I’ll get around to building it, and then I won’t go back to PowerPoint again.