can install a Java app along with Flash that can provide all the
functionality Flash doesn't have and can communicate with the SWF via
XMLSocket.
This can also be done on Windows via an ActiveX container or project
extension but right now there is nothing cross-platform.
And of course, as said earlier, Director can be used to create
cross-platform apps and has a lot more capabilities than Flash, including
database access and file system access (via extras).
Sam
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick Applebaum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 2:42 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: blackstone talk at CFUN
>
> On Jul 2, 2004, at 10:58 AM, Samuel R. Neff wrote:
>
> > Flash with XMLSockets or FlashComm will give you an always-on
> > connection.
> > Any use of a webserver on the client machine to provide local
> > "back-end"
> > functionality to a desktop app is really overkill.
> >
>
> That definitely would be a better way to go -- as long as the Flash
> program also has (with proper user authorization) to access
> the system
> and file structure (of the logged on user)
>
> Yes, I mean cfexecute-level stuff.
>
> No, this is not (necessarily) for the web but for a closed network--
> where the enterprise owns all the clients and all the servers.
>
> Dick
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