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Oh my gosh

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:58 AM, mark francombe < mark@... > 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
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> 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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> to nearest space.
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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
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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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