They all use servers. Otherwise you are throwing your customers (or yourself) under the cybersecurity bus by letting people steal their data (or letting them manipulate yours; like giving themselves free credits).

I have a galaxy generation algorithm that outputs 10,000+ stars with planets etc.

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It is all in the math that you use. We store all of our information in JSON flat file, load via AJAX, parse with RexRainbow's Hash plugin.

I read your original post and skipped the next five pages.

Based on what I believe I understand that you are trying to do (since it sounds similar to something we will be doing soon), we have item_id "Instance Variable" that is set during the initial creation loop and identifies the specific object on mouse over. That way, specific frame ID's can be stored locally on the sprite instance, rather than in a correlation array or hash (as we used to do).

When we mouse over the object, I pull the item_id then use that to set the frame of the object being created to drag and drop.

This is kind of a different paradigm than what you were pursuing though.

Do you have a transparent background on the rug image?

Try RexRainbow's Hash plugin.

We use JSON inputs and parse it with Rex's Hash plugin, but I believe it accepts XML too.

No. You must set up servers (or contract someone to do it for you).

The browser is unsecurable. So you should never, never, never rely on client-side security.

> Make a scrollable table object that I can dynamically load sprites/text into. The "Container" behavior would allow me to move only one object in the container to scroll the entire table up and down.

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A Container is not a container like a bucket. It's an association between object types during object creation, destruction and picking. You might want Pin behaviour. (Not saying Container wouldn't be useful, just in a different way).

Thanks codah. The pin behavior works perfectly. I have a scrollable/drag/droppable table now.

It is only one sponsor long atm.

Thanks for this article. We are self publishing, so our biggest issue is finding a reasonable payment processing company.

We are publishing our game on an Amazon Web Services virtual server.

You can setup a free one for a year at their website: http://aws.amazon.com/

Once you install Apache web server, you just copy/paste your exported files into the htdocs folder in Apache main directory then visit the public IP listed on the AWS EC2 server description.

Okay after testing on a raw Opera 32-bit and WaterFox browser, it seems that the culprit is one of the plugins on my usual browser.

Thanks for clarifying this, Ashley.

Hm, okay, I do have Adblock Plus, Firebug, Flash player, and a Java plugin. I'll experiment on raw browsers and see.

The server itself is running a locked down version of Apache which proxies the requests back to Java servlets running on a Linux Tomcat stack. I'll dig through my server side code, but I still don't know what else would cause that popup.