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Want to keep your Tip of the Day content fresh? Let users submit the tips themselves. Contributors get to see their names in lights and be king (or queen) for a day if their tips gain the coveted "Tips of the Day" distinction.

If you've been following along with this series, you've already used screens to complete the application framework (part one) and connected it to the tip web service (part two). In this final section, you're going to develop the means for users to submit new tips.

Since you've come so far, it's only fair to give you a running version of the application itself. Here it is.

Go ahead; feel free to submit a tip. But don't get too distracted and forget to complete the third and final part of the project: hooking up the application code so users can submit tips.

Requirements

To complete this tutorial, you will need to install the following software and files:

Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004

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• Buy

Download sample files for this tutorial

• firstflash.zip (810KB)

Complete parts one and two of this article series:

• Building a Tip of the Day Application (Part 1): Using Screens and Components
• Building a Tip of the Day Application (Part 2): Working with Web Services

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About the author

Jen deHaan is a Calgary-based Flash "deseloper" (designer/developer) who writes books and makes things with Macromedia Flash. Jen has been involved in oodles of books (usually) on Macromedia products since 2002. One of the recent books is the upcoming Macromedia Flash MX 2004: Training from the Source for Macromedia Press.

Jen hasn’t achieved much since her bio from part 1 of the tutorial.

Jen is the friendly web person championing many unsuccessful sites including www.flash-mx.com and www.flash2004.com. You can find her personal portfolio and rants at www.ejepo.com and her Flash help at www.flashmx2004.com. Jen currently receives an average of 53 “testing” tip submissions each day, and reads every one of them.