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Building an XML-powered Flash Viewer

November 23rd, 2004 by Tom Myer

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Customer: XCEL ARTS
Problem: They needed a way to build Flash presentations on the fly.
Solution: We built them an XML-powered presentation tool that can play text, images, movies, and sound.

XCEL ARTS is a successful high-end design firm with strong competencies in multimedia. One of their clients, an industrial manufacturer, presented them with a unique challenge: he wanted to be able to easily create multimedia presentations without having to use the more complex commercially available presentation tools.

We proposed an XML-powered Flash tool. Users could drop assets into a special folder, update the XML file, and the Flash tool would dynamically update a navigation menu of presentation pieces.

The tool can display text, images, and play movies, Flash animations, and sound files. It is lightweight and portable, and a simple addition allows it to play external files (such as Word documents) and link to live Web sites.

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