Introduction
This site is about one thing. Getting Director or Shockwave to 'talk' to the outside world. If you want to work with netLingo and find out how to interface with a web based database then this is the place for you. It's a start. It's certainly not 'everything' that can be done but this site can help you to smoothly progress from downloading a simple text file to communicating with an online database and working with files on the server.
Who
Shocknet takes the view that you need only know what you need to know now. Not later and definitely not after you've bought and read a 1200+ page book, when all you needed to know was:
- what are the right calls to make from Director?
- what's the best way to write a net behaviour?
- how do you insert data into a database?
- how do you retrieve data from a database?
- how do you format it?
- what do you do with the data returned to Director?
That's it really. The rest you can learn as you go along. I've written some simple shockwave programs that will let you interact with the database and hopefully you'll find them useful as working models and we all know that MM's site lacks working implementations for these types of processes.
News
Due to various incompatabilities and the lack of any guidance from MM, in spite of repeated emails asking for clarification, the Shockwave nav should now be viewable by all browsers. However, you should use a browser that supports CSS2 to get a presentable page.
A new series of articles dealing with Dom-Lingo. If it's not showing up in the menu then click 'Check For New Menu'.
The new extensions to the XML Parser Scripts are now available to download. The package (101K) consists of scripts, test movie and HTML help files.
Latest
Basic DOM-Lingo test suite now available (19k), covering parsing, document creation, find and find and replace techniques.
A pseudo sax test suite now available (68k), that uses the XML Parser xtra. It is an experiment but should provide some additional flexibility for those of you using the xtra. There are five examples of sax parsing, with complete source.
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