Dear friends
i have a Flash animation into a ZoomView photography: in this animation there is a text. Can i create a procedure than dinamically change the text (with a little database) into my Flash animation on ZoomView Photography?
If the answer is "Yes" how can i do to assemble this work??

Thank You
Warren

The answer is "yes" you can do this. There is more than one way to do this, but perhaps the easiest is to use javascript as the intermediary. The path of the data would be this: DB->HTML->XML->SWF. In other words, you would create you own custom property in the mtx (XML). You would then set the value of this property via javascript (HTML), and in turn call an action that passes the value of this property to the dynamic text field of the embeded Flash movie. It would look something like this:

HTML:

// pass a string into your custom property
function setText(myString)
{
vmp.SetProperty ('myString', 'Data', myString, 'mts_str');
vmp.PostEvent ('setText', 0);
}

XML:

<!-- define the property -->
<MTSProperty Name="myString" Data="temp text" Type="mts_str"/>
<!-- pass the string to a flash variable -->
<MTSAction Name="setFlashText">
   <MTSSetProperty Target="myFlash.SWF._root.myDynamicTextField" Value="MTSScene.myString"/>
</MTSAction>
<!-- event which calls your action -->
<MTSInteractor Name="getMessage">
   <MTSHandle Event="setText" Action="setFlashText"/>
</MTSInteractor>

...where "myDynamicTextField" is the var label of your dynamic text field in your embeded Flash movie, and "myFlash" is the name of the MTSTimeElem that loads your embeded Flash movie.

HTH, let me know if you need further assistance, regards,
Daimen

tank you duncan
and sorry for my bad english ( in italy we d'not know well English but we know very well soccer (sig!!!.

warren

oops, it seems MTSProperty doesn't work as expected in the current player release... that'll teach me to test my suggestions before I post them Anyway the workaround is easy, here's the tested scenario:

HTML:

function setText(myString)
{
vmp.SetProperty('myInteractor', 'stat', myString, 'mts_str');
vmp.PostEvent('setText', 0);
}

XML:

<!-- pass the string to a flash variable -->
<MTSAction Name="setFlashText">
   <MTSSetProperty Target="myFlash.SWF._root.myDynamicTextField" Value="val"/>
</MTSAction>
<!-- interactor which holds the string and event which calls your action -->
<MTSInteractor Name="myInteractor" StartState="dummy">
   <MTSHandle Event="setText" Action="setFlashText" val="myInteractor.stat"/>
</MTSInteractor>

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