[Sussex] Flash development

[Nic James Ferrier]

"James Smith" <james at floppy.org.uk> writes:

> 1) I need to create a "graph viewer" which can display a set of data
> which is fetched via an HTTP request from a web server. Can you do
> HTTP requests for such remote data within the Flash file?

Yes.


> 2) Does Flash have the sort of capabilities I need to do a bit of
> analysis on this data (just some simple maths and array manipulation
> really)? This would be very useful as it would reduce load on the
> server, which wouldn't have to do the actual data analysis.

Yes.


> 3) Are there open source compilers/tools, and if so, what would you
> recommend? Ideally I don't want to shell out for the Adobe Flash dev
> environment thing if I don't need to.

see osflash.org


> 4) This is my main problem really - are there any basic introductions
> to developing Flash which anyone can recommend? I've looked around,
> but not managed to find anything which makes it particularly easy to
> get into... otherwise, are there any books you'd recommend?

Dunno... I'd be interested in an answer to this as well. Having been
closed for so long it seems that the flash world has kinda developed
in a bit of a closet.

Hopefully with gnash that will change. It's a big deal gnash I reckon.


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Nic Ferrier
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