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Pyroclasm
12-01-2003, 06:31 AM
Guys, I need your help. A big client want me (cause my other associate is actionscript e-literate) to make an interface for him that has 3000 flow charts, all different. He wants them animated and easy to read, Some have paragraphs in the tiny boxes on some of the flow charts. This is a big job i know, and I have to do it. What would you guys suggest is the easiest way to do this. I don't know XML but is there someone out there that might know a solution to my delema. I am willing to learn a bit of XML if it would help. Actionscript and XML i gotta feeling that they could work, but i dunno how. Any ideas?:(

M@rco
12-06-2003, 11:56 PM
It seems entirely feasible to be that you should be able to create a Flash file which uses ActionScript to parse an input XML file and turn it into an interactive flowchart by filling template elements with content from the XML. However, this is a huge undertaking, and unless you're really hot on ActionScript and Flash itself, I suggest that you don't touch it with a bargepole. The XML aspects of the project won't be hard for you to get a handle on.