Flash objects being controlled by a database

[Mort]

Hey all

I am wndering how difficult it would be to make a dynamic flash project, where there were shapes in the flash that would move, and move to certain places when rows were added to a database.

Its sort of a status thing I am doing to show if certain aspects of the site are working.

Has to be in flash though. My flash expericne is ok in the studio, but not so great with AS. I am sure if someone can point me in the right direction I can muddle my way along though.

Cheers

 

[uchuff]

Flash works pretty nicely communicating to external data sources via XML, one way to do it might be to script a server side page which returns a (presumably somewhat cached) data set in XML.

 

[Stretch]

Flash works pretty nicely communicating to external data sources via XML, one way to do it might be to script a server side page which returns a (presumably somewhat cached) data set in XML.

It's fine for simple stuff but scales atrociously. What he wants may well be possible, just a warning not to try anything to ambitious.