Contribute With Flash?

#1 (**permalink**) 04-13-2008, 03:14 AM

I was wondering if Contribute can be used/set up to make edits to dynamic text
within a flash site? For example, if I have dynamic text linked to a external
..txt file, can I send a Contribute key to a client for them to be able to edit
that file? Also, do they need to have a copy of Contribute to do so or can they
use a standard text editor? I appreciate any thoughts.

#2 (**permalink**) 04-13-2008, 03:14 AM

Hi,

I believe that you are talking about the Contribute connection keys here i.e
the .stc file. When you create an stc file you basically state the connection
type, username , password and the role with which he can connect to the site.
if that role has edit permissions, then the client to whom the keys are send
can import the keys, and create connection to the site and edit the pages.

Can you please let me know what you meant by dynamic text within a flash site?
It would be great if you cn give me more details

Thanks

#3 (**permalink**) 04-13-2008, 03:14 AM

You can't use Contribute (using version CS3) to edit files with extension .txt.
If you can replace the extensions of the files you import in a flash swf, to
f.i. .php or .htm this solution maybe can work.
Your client will need a copy of Contribute to edit these files though.
I would suggest you download the Contribute trial and try if it works.

Consideration: As far as I know you can render files as html-text in flash.

#4 (**permalink**) 04-13-2008, 03:14 AM

Tested it for you on an old flash website of myself and it works fine. I can
edit the html-file in Contribute, publish the file and the changes show up in
the swf.
You can load files with extesions like xml/html using the attached code in
Flash-actionscript (player 7, as 2.0), usign the textarea component
The html file loaded.html looked like this:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Wondering</h1>
<p>I was wondering if Contribute can be used/set up to make edits to dynamic
text within a flash site? For example, if I have dynamic text linked to a
external .txt file, can I send a Contribute key to a client for them to be able
to edit that file? Also, do they need to have a copy of Contribute to do so or
can they use a standard text editor? I appreciate any thoughts.<br>
</p>
<p>I was wondering if Contribute can be used/set up to make edits to dynamic
text within a flash site? For example, if I have dynamic text linked to a
external .txt file, can I send a Contribute key to a client for them to be able
to edit that file? Also, do they need to have a copy of Contribute to do so or
can they use a standard text editor? I appreciate any thoughts.<br>
</p>
</body>
</html>

//init TextArea component
myText.html = true;
myText.wordWrap = true;
myText.multiline = true;
myText.label.condenseWhite=true;

// load css
documentStyle = new TextField.StyleSheet();
documentStyle.load("style.css");
myText.styleSheet = documentStyle;

//load in HTML/XML
documentContent = new XML();
documentContent.ignoreWhite = true;
documentContent.load("loaded.html");
documentContent.onLoad = function(success)
{
if(success)
{
myText.text = documentContent;
}
}

stop();

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