About Kevin Fraser Expertise I have been programming since 1975. I will answer questions on Macromedia Director and its Lingo programming language. I have worked as a full time Lingo developer on several commercially released educational CD-ROM projects for a total of about three years at a major University software lab. cannot answer q`s about Macromedia Flash. I know Director, not Flash
Experience Graduate of the Vancouver Film School Multimedia program, member of the SFU Excite Lab at Simon Fraser University, Director and CTO, Tencrows.com Technologies Inc.
Expert: Kevin Fraser Date: 5/10/2001 Subject: linking macromedia director 8.0 with database
Question Dear Sir
I'm doing multimedia project and I would like to know how to link macromedia director 8.0 with database / access 2000, so that the data can be updated? The purpose is to let people keep the data updated from access without having to know about director.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely yours
mira
Answer The only thing I have experience with is datagrip:
www.datagrip.com
You can download it and start developing with it immediately for free: but only within Director. When you are ready to deliver your application, you or your client will need to buy the license to make it work under a Projector. Windows only, of course. In my experience, it does work well, allows direct and stored SQL queries within an MDB file, and is fairly well documented, but realize that you are now getting into working with relational databases and probably SQL as well. Some people are surprised to discover that.
There is another product, but I can't think of its name. You can probably find out about it and Datagrip from other users by searching posts to the Direct-L listserv at:
You will have to include an installer with your finished application that puts in something called Data Access Objects (DAO 3.5) on your user's computer, unless it is guaranteed that your user has MS Access installed.
