Publishing SWF's with AS3

[SFMltd]

Hi All,

I was just wondering if its possible to build a flash application that can publish its own swf files based on user input?  Might be a silly question but i cant seem to find an answer to it anywhere?!

Many Thanks

Matt

[kglad · Accepted solution]

no, a swf cannot create another swf.

on the other hand, a swf can save data that's used by anoth swf and that other swf then appears to be customized (per your user's input if you wish).

[SFMltd]

Hi Kglad, apologies for the late reply. Thankyou, thats useful to know. Really what i wanted to do was to create a flash app that would allow non flash users to be able to create new flash assets based on a template but adding their own text etc. I guess i could build an interface which would output to .as files? Those could then be compiled with flash builder or similar? Bit of a long shot i think!

[Amy Blankenship]

Depending on your other skills, you could write something that would either write JS code or incorporate a back-end technology (like ASP or PHP) to add custom flash vars. I think there actually are server-side technologies that will generate a swf, but I'm not sure of the state of the technology.

[SFMltd]

Thanks Amy, a good solution but unforetunately it sounds a bit outside of my skillset!

[kglad]

do you want your users to see something they customized, or download something customized for them?

if the former, that should be easy.  a swf can create and save (with server-side code) server files (like xml) that can be used by another swf to customize its appearance.

[SFMltd]

Thanks Kglad but i think i'm going to scrap the idea for now as i dont think what i'm trying to do is really possible : S Thankyou for the input though!