Bharat Varma wrote:
I am developing an application where I would like to use Flex to talk to
some dlls / exe installed on the local machine, through a browser.
The DLLs (and or) EXE will be installed using an installer.... [snip]
Are you asking "How can a SWF in a browser talk to my native-code
libraries installed on the viewing machine?"
If so, then here are possibilities:
(a) use a completely remote connection, with the in-browser SWF talking
to your server, and your on-machine DLLs also getting messages from your
server (it sounds silly, but people have used this for years);
(b) if your DLL can be invoked by the same webpage holding the SWF,
then you can use ExternalInterface-type of work to have the browser's
JavaScript intermediate the messages between the two codebases;
(c) making a standalone application, rather than an in-browser page,
can help you avoid the required browser sandboxing... Flash makes
Projectors, and other firms host deeper native shells (Zinc, eg).
The Apollo angle I'm not really sure of, because we're still in alpha
and local-access is such a hot issue. I've seen some example where
people use a local server as the intermediary between processes, but I
think we need to sit and wait a bit, to see the options the final 1.0
delivery enables.
jd
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