Flash :: Flash CDROM & Saved Sessions?

Flash CDROM Sessions Saved/Continued?
Hi All,

I'm looking into whether we might use Flash to create an interactive CDRom on HIV/AIDS for distribution throughout Viet Nam.

One of the requirements is that users be able to customize their use of the CD with things like an avatar, and that they be able to be recognized and continue previous sessions if they need to leave and come back to it.

This would require I presume storing this sort of session info on the users' hard drive.

Is this something that one can accomplish using Flash?

Thanks in advance for any advice,

:)Ben

www.pathfind.org

ASP SESSIONS W/ Flash
Does anyone have an example or tutorial of how to call a variable from an asp session into a flash button?

Please help i've looked every where I can think of.

Thank you,
Quince Wyss
quince@quincewyss.com

Using Sessions With Flash?
Is there anyway to use PHP sessions with flash, in order to preserve the variables in a flash movie when it reloads with the page???

i have a flash mp3 player i built on a php page.
The problem is that when i go to another page on the site, the flash
mp3 player is reloaded and the music stops.

if you have any ideas (and i don't want to build the page in frames, or put the flash player on another window)

Flash And Sessions
Hi

I am developing a backend in Java and using Flash as the front end. The Flash application requires that the user logs in. To do this I get the session info and store it in the flash and pass is back as JSESSIONID=xxxxx to each url that is loaded. THis works fine in a browser window. Howe if I need to debug in the FLASH ide this doesn't workas the browser seems to ignore the session info being passed.

Is there a way to get around this?

Benon

Sessions In Flash
Hi,
I am developing a flash presentation which has different areas. I will be uploading that on Web and want to know that how many users are on any area. Or say i want to create a monthly report and would like to know which area is liked most.

I think this can be done by sessions. I did these types of reports in PHP, ASP earlier but don't know how to do that in Flash MX2004.

Any ideas would be helpful.. I think there is something called session array in Flash MX but no use of that as i can't get any info abt that anywhere on web.

Thanks in advance for all your help.

Regards

PHP Sessions W/ FLASH
Please, I'm sure someone has tried to tackle this, how can I set up so that PHP can maintain sessionsIDs when the user is seeing a flash front end? If I can't truly use sessions variables, then can I atleast simulate them in some way? Please any help or workarounds for this.

Flash, PHP & Sessions
I'm working on a site that will include a members section, which in order to reach, the user must create an account and log in. The general section of the site is HTML, however the Member's section is all Flash. I am familiar with PHP & Sessions, but can not figure out how to use Sessions in conjunture with Flash. I've been unable to find any tutorials or help searching online. If anyone knows of any good tutorials or can point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.

Flash, Php And Sessions
hey guys, for example, im processing a large image using bitmap data, extracting colors for its every pixel, now the resulting string would be very long (even with rle encoding),
can i somehow pass this data to php, through certain intervals, and just use sessions to keep the already passed data?

PHP Sessions In Flash.
How would I work with a php session in Flash?

ASP Sessions And Flash
Hi. I am in the process of building a Flash website. The static elements of the site are built and running smoothly.

I intend - but have not yet done - to allow the users to logon to the site. All user credentials are stored in a SQL Server database which the SWF file must query. I think i might know how to do this. I haven't done it yet, but i suspect the answer is to create an ASP page that does the querying, then pass the results (success or fail) back to flash.

However, whilst this will work (i am sure) what happens if the user refreshes their page? the variable that states they have logged on, will be reset right? Thinking about it a bit more deeply, I suspect the way to do this is to have the ASP page write a session cookie. Which brings me onto my question. How can i make Flash see session cookies? I could have ASP read the session cookie, and pass that back to Flash, but because different users have different privilages, that would mean making confidential information (username etc), visible in the code. Or would it?

Does anyone have any advise/ideas, or a good tutorial to do what is is i need? I have spent so much time working out the specifics, that i am now so confused, i don't really know where to start.

Thanks

Flash Vars To Php In Sessions
Hi
I am building a flash5 + PHP site with interactive clothing design functions, i need to transfer the vars to a php to list selections on a html page (printable) at which stage the user can - ADD another item(back to flash movie @ start) - EDIT each item(back to flash movie with all selections put back into place(if /else if - tell targets) - confirmed(send email with all items listed).

I have started the code but I really need a simple way to:

( in flash5 )
- send vars and go ( i think - getURL + POST )
- recieve vars back in ( i think - loadVariablesNum + POST )

( in php )
- stay in session
- identify ids of new item/s added - same or similar vars each time

Any help would be most appreciated!!!

Using Flash To Load Vnc Sessions
Hello everyone

Ok i use a program called vnc to access other users terminals. i need to have a flash page so that i can type in text into a text box, then click on a button to launch the vnc program with the text specified as the host terminal to connect to.

Please can anyone help me

Nick

Flash With Asp >> Tracking Sessions
I have a set of buttons I created in flash and want to use them on a clients webstore. This store is using asp and in the url it tracks the session/shopper with a unique ID. When I link to different pages of the store I use the following string to keep the session intact:

ww.aaa.com/stores_app/store.asp?url_string&page_id=11

the url_string is a variable that tracks the shopper id and the store id..this is what the url looks like when it resolves the page
ww.aaa.com/stores_app/store.asp?store_id=144&Shopper_ID=8031120592480&pa ge_id=11

In flash i am using the getURL action one of the buttons to test it but have had no luck...the session is broken.
here is the action :

on (release) {
getURL("register.asp?url_string&page_id=11", "_blank", "GET");
}

I have aslo tried to use POST but no changes...I have read up on this at a few sites and some say to use LoadVariablesNUM instead of getURL but it looks like they need to declare some variables before the action...can you tell what i am missing by looking at this?

How To Handle PHP-Sessions With Flash
A problem many should have run into already but which to I can´t really find an easy solution.

I have a site with login tracking users via sessions, all written in php, buzzword: "session_start()". As far as I know, the tracking is done via a cookie or, if cookies are disabled, via SID in the URL.

My question is thus, is there a way for flash also to use this to keep track of the user, or in other words, how can I use cookies to tell flash who has logged in and is navigating my site.

I stumbled upon several things that seemed either insecure, inappropriate or way too complicated like ".swf?SID=<mySID>", ExternalInterface, URLRequest and manageCookies...

Maybe someone can point me to the right direction.

Thanks a lot!

[CS3] Passing .asp Sessions To Flash
Hi everyone...

Just out of interest - is this possible...

I have a flash login form sitting on a .asp page

What i have is when the user enters the wrong password, the user goes back to the same login page with an error message and has to re-enter their email address and password.

What i'd like is to pass the asp session to flash so that the email address which the user entered is still there on the page, and so all they have to do is re-enter their password.

Is this possible at all?

Thanks in advance!

Does Flash Destroy PHP Sessions?
I think I need to ask it more simply....my other post was confusing. Does Flash destroy PHP sessions right away? I'm having Flash and PHP Session issues...the session seems to be getting destroyed quickly after its made. Any ideas?

Flash Php - Sessions? Advice Please
Hey all,

Ok, I'm making a flash quiz type thing. I want the user just to type in a username (no password protection etc) and then to do the quiz. The username and the users' answers to each question should be stored in a database so they can later be retrieved and emailed to me.

I'm going to use php and mysql, I'm ok with passing all the data back and forth. My question is, do I need to worry about sessions? around 70 people will be doing the quiz at the same time, so I need to make sure the answers sent to the db at each stage are inserted against the correct user. I think using sessions is the best way to do this but I don't know much about them and especially how to use them with flash.

If someone could explain basically how it would all work, and/or point me in the direction of a simple tutorial it would be very much appreciated!

Thanks

PHP Sessions With Flash Buttons?
I have an ecommerce website that is mainly php. I have a cool nav bar with flash animations I would like to use, but I don't know how to script my movies for php sessions. Is this even possible?

Leaving And Re-entering Flash Sessions
Hi, I see on some flash app web sites, they prompt the user to verify their intent on leaving the flash app before it leaves. Any ideas on how this can be accomplished?

To be more complete, I would also like to save some of the current states before the flash app leaves and re-load them when the user re-enters the flash app? I was thinking about saving the current states on the server under the user's ip address so that when they return I would know where to find the state file. Does anyone know if I can directly obtain the ip address from within actionscript?

Flash Remoting + PHP : Authentication? ( Sessions - AMFPHP )
hi there,

I'm using Flash Remoting + AMFPHP + PHP.

I need to login users... which is normally done in PHP buy using sessions (which use cookies). The problem is that with Flash I don't have any cookies! I imagine this is a common problem... here are 3 of the solutions I can think of.

- Forget all about cookies and use Flash Remoting setCredentials() authentication. However I don't feel like storing real username - passwords on the client side and having them posted and validated with every remote request.

- Forget all about cookies and use setCredentials(), but this time with the username and a hash (calculated at login time). The hash can then be matched against the username by a simple function on the server side and validated this way. The hash could be seeded with some variable parameter... like the date for example, which would make a login valid only for one day.
I really like this idea hehe, sounds great...
Don't forget that you read it here first

- Use the setCredentials() to pass the session_id and restore the session in the server side with PHP.... but how can I restore a session by manually entering a session_id?? And... if I already have a stateful client with flash, why the heck would I use server side sessions....

Any comments and ideas more than welcome!

Where Are Flash CS4 Settings Saved?
Anyone know where Flash CS4 settings are saved [folder location]? Such as keyboard settings, preferences, commands, etc.? I want to be able to back them up and copy them to another PC. Thanks.

Saved MX 2004 File Does Not Go Into Flash MX?
Does anyone know of any patches I can get to remedy this? Most of our files are in MX, and I can open MX in MX 2004, but not everyone here has upgraded. If I change something in MX 2004, they can't open the file in MX...

Any and all help would be great..

Thanks,

Michael

How To Make Pictures In Flash Which Can Be Saved?
I will put the picture in flash, and i also want the pictures could be saved by right-clicking on picture.. thank you!

Flash 5 Saving Variables From A Swf File Saved To A CD ROM
How can I get a swf file to save a score/variables so that they can be picked up next time the CD is used.
For example: a score in a test taken on one day compared with a score from the same test taken on the nexday.

john.baxter1@btconnect.com

Flash Crash With Audio File Whenever Saved
Hi everyone,

Hopefully someone either knows if this is a common error or a way to fix it.

I'm making a flash animation that needs to be timed to an audio file about 3 minutes long. But every time I try to save the flash document with the audio file attached to a key frame, Flash freezes and I must force quit the program. Is there some sort of restriction on how large (file size) or long (time) an audio file can be in order for Flash to save a document with it? It seems to me that would be really silly, but I can find no other explanation of why it's freezing while saving. I tested saving flash documents without the large audio file and the program had no trouble.

How To Have Jpgs Saved In CMYK Mode Thru Flash?
In flash I am doing a interactive CD- I have buttons that call different
things. Some are pdfs, some or eps's but the majority are Jpg's.

I use the geturl command for all.. On the pdf's and the eps files-it works
fine it opens and asks if you wish to save it.. That's what I want. However
on the jpgs- it doesn't unless I make it a rgb then it just shows the image
in the browser- I want to have it in cmyk and ask if you wish to download-
how would I do this?

Saved Old Game In Flash Mx And Now Doesn't Work
It has been years since I used flash and I have just finally decided to open up my flash mx. I know there is a learning curve, but I opened an old game in flash and saved it and now it doesn't work. I think that the problem is with the call library. Could someone look at my file? the file is 1880kb so I can't upload it. You can see the problem at this url http://www.kujostudios.com/holidayPa...witchgame.html
none of my games really work. But I will try to fix them one at a time for now.

Export/import Saved Text With Flash
Hello, i have a question concerning saving with flash.
Actually, i'd like to allow my users to export/import saved configurations with the module i made.
I've used SharedObjects to do so but it only allows the user to save 1 configuration (assuming the object is not deleted !).
I know i can do it with some PHP association, but i can't do it because the module is also downloadable, so PHP won't work localy (and the users aren't strong enough to use local web servers like easyphp !).
So i'd like to know if there's a way to make an export/import solution for text with flash.
Thanx for your ideas

Flash Files Saved Temporary By Explorer?
I am planning to have a menu in flash on my site. I am not using frames. Will the flash file be cached by explorer by default or do I have to use frames to prevent flash to be loaded over and over again on every page?

Thanks / Henrik

Flash MX Pro: Will Saved Flash File Work In Educational Version?
I am currently attending school, and have been working on some stuff in Flash MX Pro, however the school has MX Educational. Will I still be able to open these files in the educ. version?

if not, are there any work arounds. i would hate to loose the last few hours i just spend drawing in flash...

thanks guys!

Flash On CDROM
Hello All!

I am trying to put together a site that would go on a CD rom and I've come across some issues. Anyone who has done this before should most likely know how to deal with it.

I'm basically going to have a hybrid site: an html framework with some flash pieces.

Issue 1) I would use an exe flash file to open the main html file (or something else I saw online to open html files on autorun). The flash exe remains over the html page. How can I make it automatically go to the background behind the html window?

Issue 2) Internet Explorer 6 has the damn pop up stopper by default so if you open an html page with embeded flash locally (or from a cd) it'll block the flash content. Very bad news! How do I fix this???

1000 thank-us!

Is There A Simple Way To Have A User Change In Flash Saved To The Server So Others Will See It?
Is there a simple way to have a user change of a Flash page saved to the
server so others will see it? I would like to have a password-protected
editable Flash page that could be saved to the server when changes are made
on-line by a staff member. I have created a Perl/CGI program that does this
on one of my sites, but not all my clients have access to their servers'
cgi-bin folders nor the ability to assign passwords to prevent the file from
being changed by just anyone. Perhaps there is a free Flash word-processor
with file-saving program already created and available that could be
inserted into a password-protected page? Or is there just a simple Flash
script that will save a modified page or movie to the server without
obtaining special permissions from the servers' administrators? Another
option would be an in-Flash ftp program, from which the changed page could
just be sent by ftp to the server using a Flash command. ??

Thanks,

:Ri

Why Does The Duplicate Movie Clip Break When Saved As Flash 7?
Why when I save this mc as flash 7 the duplicate movie over the R Logo breaks ? ( works fine as 6 )

Can someone save this as flash 7 for me and see if it breaks for them as well!!!!

See attatched file

Explore CDrom From Flash EXE
I am cerating a CD that has PDFs.

I have created a CD presentation that allows you to install Acrobat Reader if you like.

Also I have created a button that will allow you to "View PDFs". This is where I need help.

I would like to know what is the Actionscript to view your CDRom contents via Windows Explorer. WITHOUT using 3rd party software (Jester, Northcode).

If there is someone that can help me that would be great.

Thank you in advance.

Flash CDROM Question
Hello all.

I have a question that I should know the answer to but am struggling with.

I created a Flash menu, from which end users will install software. The Flash menu buttons will install applications, like Adobe. So it will be linked to an .EXE file on the CD. All files will be kept on the CD. I have done this with a server (Where struct is \serversharefile), but never on a CD-ROM. The autorun part I know.

Would I still use FScommand? And if so, what is the syntax to make it look to the CD. Which to restate is on the same CD as the Flash movie/menu.

CDrom With Auto-exe Flash
I want to know how I can make an auto-executable flash file in a CD-rom. This CD-rom have to run in Mac and PC computers.

Thanks in advance.
(And sorry for my english)

Possible To Have Web Flash Access CDROM XML?
We need to have some server based Flash attempt to access a CDROM so that it can tell our server if they have the right CDROM in for playback. We basically want to ask the Flash to load some XML from the CDROM.

It would seem from reading MM's MX Security White Paper that this is impossible. Is there any way to privilege this with signing? Our product consists of a trusted hybrid rich media application with CDROM delivering video and web-based Flash delivering enhanced content. We're looking for a way to tell if the user has put the right CD in.

Any ideas would be appreciated...

TIA,

idealord

Flash Problem With CDROM
HI All,
I need to deploy my flash project into CDROM. All the flash work fine on my hard disk. And I also uploaded the whole project on web server. It all works fine.
But after I burn the flash on CDR, some of them don't work! They couldn't even finish loading (with a percentage loading bar). Some of them even crashed!

Does anyone knows where is the problem? The flash? The CD burner software (i am using NERO burning ROM) ? The CD-R?

Please help!The problem really get me annoying!!

thanks in advance!

Creating Flash CDROM - What The ? HELP
I am not new to flash - (that is not to say that I do not learn new things daily, such as what flash will and will not do - I am totally stumped -> please read the following...)

I am creating a very simple CDROM, deciding to use flash instead of Director because:

1) I know flash a whole lot better than Director
2) I know flash a whole lot better than Director

But I am getting some bugs that I simply can not figure out, and this project which I quoted 8 hours on has already eaten up 4 with not much progress.

Here are some of the problems I am experiencing.

I have set an action on the first frame to

Code:
fscommand ("fullscreen", true);
fscommand ("allowscale", false);
so I get a nice little movie in the middle of the stage exactly at the size I am designing it. I only mention this, because the end product will be a projector and I don't know if this may be causing any problems, (I do not see why, but I thought I would mention it)

I have broken the movie down into about 6 scenes (which I normally ever use - I do everything on one timeline with nested movie clips)
but when I am navigating scene by scene - it is just jumping all over the friggin place (to different scenes) and then looping, even when I have set stop actions!
I have tried putting some trace() actions in different frames to see if I can catch where problems are occurring, but that seems to cause more problems.

Obviously I am trying to see these trace actions through a swf and not the projector, but I am wondering if creating an .exe or Mac Projector doesn't like this? Can anyone enlighten me on creating Projector files (any do's or dont's that I am obviously not aware of)

I am assuming that I can program it the same - I have used a switch statement after a button click so I can play a little transition animation and then go to the relevant frame dependant on what button was just clicked, but, you guessed it, more problems. It seems like flash doesn't like to target different timelines maybe if I am creating a projector.

This has got me really peeved and it has ruined my [Friday] night - any help would be oh so very appreciated...

Cheers

Cdrom Flash Exe Installer
hey!

i already have a movie to be published and to be burned on a cd together with some programs and other folders.

it will be something like a installation option thing where the user can choose what program to install and what folder to browse inside the cd.

for example, how do i launch "setup.exe" inside a "my apps" folder on the cd?

and how do i launch the window browser and browse the "my files" folder also inside the cd?

thanks in advanced.

A Flash Login Form Using Auto-fill From Saved Passwords?
I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this... but I have to ask. I want to make a Flash-based login page (username and password) but I would love to tie it into the web browser's saved passwords feature. Is there anyway I can query the browser somehow (javascript, etc) to get the saved password for a username on a given domain/page? I could then feed it into Flash and pre-populate the Flash form fields. Anything I could do to simplify the login for repeat visitors would be very helpful. Thanks!

Linking A Flash To A Locally Saved File Or Html Document
hey there guys im doing my final major poject for college in media and were making a set of films and making a flash interface to go with them i was just wondering how can i make links in flash that either link to a an localy saved Html document or a localy saved .mov? i know how to link them to a website but not a locally saved file?

i would much appricate the help has this is the most important of my projects.

so thanks in advance

Matthew

Flash MX And Search Engene On CDROM
Hello
Excuse me I don't speak english,but this forum is only resource to have answer on my problems.
I want to create in my Flash interface an engine search, drawing the contents in db access or dbf, no to use ASP, Php and Xml because the project is finaly for CD presentation ant not for web??
It's possible???
Do you have the example??

Very tnks

Exe-ing A Flash Movie When A Cd Is Inserted Into CDROM
Hello,
I asked this question before and got great replies. I thought I could find them through referencing my old posts--I can't find them.

So--this time I will save answer to HD.

I am creating a Flash presentation with embedded avi, etc... the works looks nice. What I would like to do is have the flash movie automatically play when the CD it is burned onto is placed into a CDROM.

Also--is it possible to prompt the user to DL the player from the disk if a player is not already installed?

THX
ODC

How To Organise Flash Site On Cdrom?
i've created a flash site that I need to put on CDROM. Problem. all the files are in the one folder, which is confusing for a user.
How can I start the movie from outside the folder with a start button, when all my movies load into each other?

I tried creating a new movie -outside the folder- that pointed to the first movie in the folder, but then the rest of the movies couldn't load...

Is there a new movie command, rather than a loadmovie command? How can i use geturl command for this.

best
max