What all is needed for this type of Flash Design Studio

Question

What all is needed for this type of Flash Design Studio.
There are a couple of sites out there that use both flash and
shockwave. I am looking ot get somethign like this started and need
some help getting pointed in the right direction. here are some
examples:
http://www.uberprints.com/studio/
http://www.customavenue.com/online-design-studio/online-design-studio.html
https://www.youdesignit.com/youdesignit.cfm
http://www.pixeltees.com/make

Answer 1

Rclarkhaddock,
> What all is needed for this type of Flash Design Studio.
There
> are a couple of sites out there that use both flash and
shockwave.
Of the examples you showed, I saw Flash (Adobe Flash),
Shockwave (Adobe
Director), and JavaScript, but never a combination on the
same site. (It
might make sense to combine Flash with JavaScript or
Shockwave with
JavaScript, but not really to combine Flash with Shockwave.)
> I am looking ot get somethign like this started and need
some help
> getting pointed in the right direction.
Any of the above technologies will do it. You could also use
a Java
applet or even a .NET solution of some kind, so the choice
you take will
depend largely on what platform you want to support and code
for. This sort
of project will require significant amounts of custom
programming. My
personal approach would be to use Flash, mainly because of
the popularity of
the plugin. The Shockwave example looks beautiful, and I
started out years
ago using Director, but fewer people nowadays have the
Shockwave plugin
installed. It doesn't look like any of the sites shown use 3D
modeling,
which is the only relevant feature that Shockwave has over
the other
approaches. JavaScript (probably some Ajax approach) would
work -- as
seen -- but then you're dealing with compatibility issues
among various
JavaScript implementations in the great variety of browsers
out there.
Flash minimizes that, in my opinion.
All you really "need" to produce what you've seen is Flash
and some sort
of database back end (MySQL, say), which means you'll need a
bit of
middleware (PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion, etc.) to act as your
ambassador between
Flash and the database.
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."