Dynamic Text in Flash/Image

Hi All,
I cant find any simple tutorials, can anyone help me and
explain how to very simply, display one variable of text from a
database as flash format (or a type of dynamic image)?
Using CS3, and ColdFusion. I'm playing games with it and
think i'm just name the variable wrong either in a flash file or cf
page. But anyway, any simple method to dynamically display text as
an image will work.... please help.
Thx,
Mike

probably the simplest way will be passing your text to your
flash movie
as the movie url's query string variable (in the
[object]/[embed] html
tags). inside the flash movie set a dynamic text box to
display the
passed variable:
if you google "pass variable to flash" you will see a lot of
examples of
code involved. just make sure your flash movie is large
enough to
display all passed text, and the passed text is url-encoded.
Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com

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