How difficult is this? (Scrolling text boxes, from a dbase, in Flash)

[kurtjwayne]

Lenny (or rather, Kurt Noble's crew) does this on his front page:

http://www.lennykravitz.com

I've got news articles pulled from a SQL Server database. Looks like Kravitz's menu is under another graphic on a semi-transparent layer.

Any tutorials on this you could recommend? Thanks very much in advance.

[relandr]

I don't have the link handy (fr.where I'm at) but I believe that Macromedia's tutorial section has an article on *XML in Flash*

I used it to dynamically call hefty img's from the server as a slide show (saves 'fat' onLoad)... should be able to be used simalarily for any files ... brings them to a predefined target on your clip.
BetterYet source::
Try ThisPlace...scroll down about mid-page...

I'd sure like to hear from some more advanced flashers myself on this subj.

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[relandr]

Addend:: I don't think 'Lenny's' using any compl. dBase calls there, looks more like an ext. swf that plays at that target layer-nested under his main content (which is semi transp'.)
I don't see dynamic content ... just some links
...JMO

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[kurtjwayne]

relandr...thanks and I'm sorry for being delayed in responding to you.

One question: hopefully there's no trickery involved, but apparently the news releases are indeed being pulled from a database. Would the ext. file need to pull from a .php file in order to display these news releases?