macromedia flash sitedesign: Hi there, I have a project due in a matter of weeks which makes me stress. I need to make a swf file which has a interactive editing tool that allows the user to create a custom swf file from the settings that are preconfigured inside the main swf file. Lets just say its a intro creator and i have premade templates of the effects for text and image that is imported to the server and then is exported to a swf file on the server. The actuall main swf file that creates the custom intro is possible to me though the exporting swf file is unknown and unheard of. I know Flash can export to swf (no duh) and third party applications as well. If anyone can make sense of what I am asking for, please reply ASAP. Thanks for your time.

I duno eather!

No way to export swf files from the player. If you have the time you could
dive into MING which would output swf files on the fly.

http://ming.sourceforge.net/

John

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You will need something something on the server side. If the user is positioning some objects, such as furniture in a room, you describe the drawing with a list of the pieces of furniture, their colors, and their location/rotation. Send that description from the first SWF to the server. Whoever wants to see it gets a SWF (perhaps the same one) with that description stuffed into it, and the SWF contains the code needed to reconstruct the scene. You can do the same thing with drawing objects like lineTos and curveTos.

A lot harder would be for the server to parse the description and generate the scene from scratch in Flash Player format. I leave that exercise to the advanced student.