Flash News Rotator

[logicuk]

Im looking for a flash news rotator that this site and many others use

http://weakgame.com/

can someone kindly point me in the right direction i would also be willing to offer some cash

thanks for your time adam

[Loccie]

The Newground's flash forum is the right direction.

[logicuk]

At 6/17/08 07:58 AM, Loccie wrote: The Newground's flash forum is the right direction.

Im sorry mate i didnt realise i posted in wrong section, if a mods see this can they move to correct place

thanks logic

[akasquid]

At 6/17/08 08:26 AM, logicuk wrote:

At 6/17/08 07:58 AM, Loccie wrote: The Newground's flash forum is the right direction.

Im sorry mate i didnt realise i posted in wrong section, if a mods see this can they move to correct place

thanks logic

They can't, you'll just have to copy and paste and then post it as a new topic in the flash forum :)

[kernalphage]

At 6/17/08 08:38 AM, akasquid wrote:

At 6/17/08 08:26 AM, logicuk wrote: if a mods see this can they move to correct place

They can't,

i just told this to someone in the art forum... but i always wondered why?
is it the way the forum's set up? or, because they haven't made a button for that yet?

[smulse]

At 6/17/08 10:59 AM, kernalphage wrote: i just told this to someone in the art forum... but i always wondered why?
is it the way the forum's set up? or, because they haven't made a button for that yet?

They use bespoke forum software and it's probably too much effort to write that in when it's easy enough to just post a new thread.

[BoneIdol]

I am not an expert regarding this and have no experience working with very high traffic websites, however my first thought would be that the database newgrounds works in such a way that update operations are computationally expensive.

There's a lot of things you can do to optimise databases such as using different database engines, adding indexes and partitioning tables. However people mistake optimising for "making it better", this is rarely the case with current computer technology and is more a trade off of one thing for another.

Newgrounds' database is most likely optimised towards finding data very fast at the expense of making adding and updating information much slower.

Either that or the Newgrounds code monkeys don't know how to do UPDATE queries. ;)

[smulse]

At 6/17/08 11:11 AM, BoneIdol wrote: Either that or the Newgrounds code monkeys don't know how to do UPDATE queries. ;)

Yeah. Because that's likely.

[BoneIdol]

At 6/17/08 11:16 AM, smulse wrote: Yeah. Because that's likely.

Awww your no fun.

But yeah, as has been stated it's most likely a feature (or intentional lack thereof) and not a technical problem.

[Loccie]

James wrote a "move topics script". He said that in a post a long time ago. It just never got published.

[Anim8or666]

The NG Forum is custom written, and the ability to move posts was simply not put in, due to the complexities and time required to make that possible. Updating and editing might also be abused, so it could have been left out intentionally.

[BoneIdol]

I really can't see why it's so complicated to change the forum a particular topic sits in. Moving a topic from the programming to the flash forum should simply be a case of changing a 7 to a 2 in the forum database. I know there's a bit more to it than that (as you'll want to inform people it's moved etc.), but it really should be as simple as that.

[Sir-Davey]

At 6/17/08 05:12 PM, BoneIdol wrote: I really can't see why it's so complicated to change the forum a particular topic sits in. Moving a topic from the programming to the flash forum should simply be a case of changing a 7 to a 2 in the forum database. I know there's a bit more to it than that (as you'll want to inform people it's moved etc.), but it really should be as simple as that.

I would guess due to the traffic the Programming and Flash forums aren't even on the same database.

[Afro-Ninja]

At 6/17/08 05:35 PM, Sir-Davey wrote: I would guess due to the traffic the Programming and Flash forums aren't even on the same database.

Well, the forums get a marginal amount of traffic compared to the flash portal, so I'd think that all the forum db stuff is grouped together. Maybe.

[logicuk]

thanks for ruining my thread guys :(

[BoneIdol]

Your welcome.

This is one of the dangers of having lots of technically minded people in one place. We get bogged down on the details.

As way of an apology:
http://www.sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashP HP/loadVars/

That'll show you how to get variables from php into flash in an easy way. If you want to do it in a more hierarchial (is that a word?) way, try using the XML object. It's a teensy bit more complicated though
http://www.kirupa.com/web/xml/index.htm

Also, take note: if you're using masks with your text (most likely), you'll need to look at this:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/m askfonts.htm

See! I can be useful occasionally!