[support] How http://eterna.cmu.edu is designed? (with drupal)

[Metzler, David]

The flash object is just embedded into the site, and is not likely built
on drupal at all.  It likely uses some sort of web services to talk to
the user database, which may or may not be served by drupal, but could
be.

Because flash is compiled, there is not a lot of opportunity to
introspect the code based on the page that is served up.   You'll need
to talk to the developers more to understand which strategies they used.


I have some experience developing (Flex) flash applications using drupal
as a back end for data storage, etc.   Generally it's just done via
registering callbacks that return JSON or XML.  There are frameworks
supported for automating RPC calls, but it can be done pretty easily
with just JSON or XML. 




-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Peng Yu
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 10:25 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: [support] How http://eterna.cmu.edu is designed? (with drupal)

Hi,

I remember that some error page on the following webpage reveals that
it is built on drupal (I can't find the URL anymore). If my memory is
correct, I'm wondering what part is handled by drupal how the other
parts are built on drupal. I understand the managing of user profiles
and let users leave comments, etc., are offered by drupal. But what
about the flash for drawing the RNA structures. How the user interface
is made so that users can play the game by clicking the buttons on the
flash?

http://eterna.cmu.edu

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Regards,
Peng
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