My pleasure!
I am looking for ANY serverside solution that will run in an unix environment that will allow me to convert pngs to swf files on the fly.
the possible methods:
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A serverside solution that converts png to dbl… then i can use ming for the rest using dbl2swf.
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Somehow insert the png into a swf using some type of clever php file such as the example i mentioned before at http://charas-project.net/charas/index.php …>>> make a character if you want … >> click Flash Preview…
it then opens up a window…
javascript:popflash('res_flash_view.php?scale=6&body=C-Devil_body.png&cat_body=base_chara/chara-medi/Corpi&face=vuoto.png&cat_face=base_chara/chara-medi/Facce&dress=vuoto.png&cat_dress=base_chara/chara-medi/Vestiti&hair=vuoto.png&cat_hair=base_chara/chara-medi/Capelli&item=vuoto.png&cat_item=base_chara/chara-medi/Accessori&item2=vuoto.png&cat_item2=base_chara/chara-medi/Accessori&item3=vuoto.png&cat_item3=base_chara/chara-medi/Accessori&tr_body=100&');
the source reads:
<html><head>
<title>Charas generated Flash</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor='black'>
<center>
<embed src='res_viewer_flash.php?scale=6&body=C-Devil_body.png&cat_body=base_chara/chara-medi/Corpi&face=vuoto.png&cat_face=base_chara/chara-medi/Facce&dress=vuoto.png&cat_dress=base_chara/chara-medi/Vestiti&hair=vuoto.png&cat_hair=base_chara/chara-medi/Capelli&item=vuoto.png&cat_item=base_chara/chara-medi/Accessori&item2=vuoto.png&cat_item2=base_chara/chara-medi/Accessori&item3=vuoto.png&cat_item3=base_chara/chara-medi/Accessori&tr_body=100&' quality=high loop=true type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width=72 height=128></embed>
<br>
<a href='javascript:window.close()' style='color:white'><b>Close this window</b></a>
</center>
</body>
</html>
so res_flash_view.php sends the info to res_viewer_flash.php which i can’t view… i get an error in php and nothing else when i try to access this file directly from my browser and view the source… the source is the error itself…
I am pretty sure they are inserting pngs live into a swf…
and …
- use some other serverside app or something such php flash turbine… which i haven’t totally looked into yet… to convert the pngs to swf
Um… It sucks in what way??? There was good amount of information available out there and I didn’t have problem getting what I needed… At least that’s how it used to be… 
But then, I pretty much abandoned Director several years ago, so I might be nobody to talk about the Director… Dang… 
yeah i guess it may be different now that “flash is catching up to it’s big brother” as i heard one forum poster say…
but i guess i am used to the immense amount of online resources for game design and other stuff for flash… in comparison i can find considerably less such material for director…
what i am actually working on is something of a extensible online rpg type game… wherein users may draw pixel art graphics online and actually use them to create their own spaces using online utilities such as map editors…
jpeg compression seriously damages pixel art integrity, and gifs (also not dynamically loadable in flash) only have 256 colours…
i thought this was possible using flash… but i guess the standard for media-rich online apps/games is director… but i don’t know director or lingo…
I know maybe just enough of flash to work on this…
I guess it makes sense to switch this project over to director… but it would be nice to at least figure this out… loading pngs dynamically into flash (using flash remoting to browse the actual directories, then load the swfs (that once were pngs) into the movie…
could prove to be VERY useful to use Flashers…
However… I get this feeling that this ‘problem’ is part of macromedias methodology to keep director and flash and their functionalities seperate to justify the product slice…
pricetag flash mx 2004: hovering around $300 US
pricetag director mx 2004: hovering around $1000 US
Ok … enuf of my conspiracy rants…
haha
ok off to check out php flash turbine…
-aleks AKA karmakat
