iFrames in Flash?

[jbensous]

Someone asked me if I could do an iFrame design using Flash MX. I have never done this and I don't think it can be done. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. can you use iFrames and html code in a flash site at all?

[kingkelly]

Yesh you can use HTML in FLash files (SWF). How? Beats me... So im sure you can use an iframe, or at least something in flash that looks like that...

[Caimin]

You can use HMTL 1.0 formatting on the text in a textField. You can't use iFrame - but you could use the new scrollPane component that comes with Flash MX, that would give you an iFrame effect.

[kingkelly]

So you can only use HTML on textfields? what good is that?

Could I use CGI scripts with fLash? like inbed SSI into a flash movie?

[Caimin]

The point is to be able to more easily format text used in Flash. Flash is a multimedia format, rather than a server side programming substitute. If you need to SSI, iFrame and the rest you'll need to use HTML, CGI, etc.

[kingkelly]

Yes, but i thought it would look cooler if i can get variables from a cgi script and have them displayed in a flash movie...

[Caimin]

You can do that but you don't need to use an iFrame or even HTML. In your CGI script have the variables printed in this way:

&var1=value

You can then use loadVariables in Flash to load your variables and display them in Flash.

[kingkelly]

So i could make a form in flash using a cgi script (add to database), then have each record printed in a table in flash? I dont know if i could get the script to print out the records into flash format.

[Caimin]

Yes, except that you wouldn't be able to use an HTML table (not HTML 1.0) - but you could make the records list look like a table quite easily.

[kingkelly]

So if the script already prints out something like

<TR><Name: $name , Age: $age></TR>

for each record, how would i replace that to have flash build that into a table?

[killroy]

you use action script to draw something that looks like a table ;)

SN

[Caimin]

Change your output so that it reads like this:

&record1=<Name: $name , Age: $age>
&record2=<Name: $name , Age: $age>

..etc.

As killroy said, you can use actionscript to fake the look of a table.