Dynamic Flash banner with XML config file

Question

I am a programmer, not a designer, so I prefer to let the computer do the creative work :-)

We would like to implement a dynamic flash banner on our website that gets created on-the-fly from an XML config file.

I would like to be able to set as many variables as possible in the XML config file, e.g.

• pictures
• fonts
• text and background colors
• animation and fading effects
• titles, subtitles, texts
• links

What is the best non-commercial / open-source dynamic flash banner you know?

Answer 1

There's hundreds of tutorials on how to do this sort of thing, as linking Flash and XML is quite an important thing.. A great video and tutorial (with source) that covers this is on Lee Brimelow's GotoAndLearn site..

http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play?id=22

..Obviously scripting your own solution is guaranteed to get in all the attributes you want, but it shouldn't be hard to modify some existing script.