Re: Director/Shockwave - DB/Access app quest

["Chunick" <webforumsuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

if you want it to be accessible from a server and you have hosting space 
somewhere then likely you have access to a MySQL database. You need to find an 
Xtra that will allow you to connect remotely and/or locally... for something 
like this you can use xmySQL Xtra:
 http://www.xtra-ucd.com/pages/page.php?product=xtra

 I have used it in the past and it would work well for the situation you 
describe. I would not use an Access DB if you want to access it from the web.

 If you decide to set things up locally only then you can use the free and tiny 
sqlite: http://staff.dasdeck.de/valentin/xtras/sqlite/
 It's rather easy to set up, if you're familiar with setting up databases and 
if you need to update things you can always create an updater program which 
would be a better solution to the issue of keeping information up-to-date... 
either a service that could run in the background as almost all programs do 
nowadays, or a check that gets done each time the program is run... it could 
check the version of certain files or you can internally keep track of the 
version in Director and that would tell you if there's an update the user 
needs... then it's just a download of new information to the database or a new 
cast that you can swap out (again, using a free Xtra from Valentin called the 
castXtra: http://staff.dasdeck.de/valentin/xtras/cast/ ). There's a good deal 
of possibilities that you can explore.