Any flash guru's

ace2109 · 29 Jul 2007 at 20:46

Does anyone know how to use flash here.

I have put together a simple presentation that will be displayed at a kiosk at a road that my company are going to at the start of september.

The presentation is simple with simple text and some pictures but what i want to know, is it possible to make a slide at the very end to gather information from a customer such as name contact number etc, and store it in a spreadsheet or something like that?

oddjob62 · 29 Jul 2007 at 21:34

The "HTML, Graphics & Programming" forum might be better

ace2109 · 29 Jul 2007 at 21:59

ok, can someone move this please

TrUz · 30 Jul 2007 at 09:59

It is possible, yes. You would need to use action script to make it happen. I do not know any action script so I cannot help but it will give you something to google.

TrUz

Shoseki · 30 Jul 2007 at 11:10

I'd google flash tutorials, then open source flash creator, or something like that.

Mind you, there are some interesting non-flash alternatives these days : http://clutter-project.org/

unknowndomain · 30 Jul 2007 at 11:11

You need to remember that you / your company have a duty to ensure the protection of your customers data so storing it in an open insecure file like excel would put their data at risk. If the kiosk was closed then the customer may find the files and be able to access them. You may be able to get around this by putting the file in a folder which the current user has no access to (windows) then using Run As to run the application as that user so that the application has access to the file but not the current user. I have no idea if this would work. I use mac so I don't have easy access to windows.

An alternative would be to run MAMP or WAMP (Mac/Windows Apache MySQL PHP) on your kiosk and have PHP create an entry in a database. You can deffinatly do that using Actionscript however local file creation sounds difficult / not possible in Flash.

Immsy · 30 Jul 2007 at 11:41

unknowndomain said:
An alternative would be to run MAMP or WAMP (Mac/Windows Apache MySQL PHP) on your kiosk and have PHP create an entry in a database. You can deffinatly do that using Actionscript however local file creation sounds difficult / not possible in Flash.

Local file creation is possible using Actionscript 3.0 but the php method with a database would be a far more viable option.