I was in a similar boat, having to generate an image server-side to that matches what the user sees in a flash movie client-side. Unfortunately there is no command-line version of Flash but AIR is almost as good. You can launch an AIR app from the command-line on the server and pass it in your data as command-line arguments. When finished the AIR app can save the image to the file system and terminate.
J On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:17 PM, lagos_tout <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > Thanks for your response. > > Since I already have a swf that generates a complex view using data > provided, what I'd like to be able to do is not have to recreate this logic > in some other language just so that the server can generate images of the > result. > > AS3 provides image generation for display classes. And if I could run the > swf on the server, instead of on the client-side, there would be no network > overhead of having to send the rendered image to the server. > > LT > > --- In [email protected], "Kevin F. Benz" <kb...@...> wrote: >> >> Well. >> >> You can run a swf in Air but I expect that is the least of your headaches. >> >> I mean, what's the real objective. If you need to dynamically create >> images, >> why not do that in the server script as you won't have all the other goo? >> This was figured out years ago as the age of the link will attest. >> >> >> >> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-05-2000/jw-0505-servlets.html >> >> >> >> K >> >> >> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of lagos_tout >> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 1:46 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [flexcoders] Run swf on server >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Hi, all. >> >> I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to implement the following use case: >> >> (1) a swf running in a browser on the client-side sends simple numeric >> data >> to a server-side script. >> (2) the server-side script calls a second swf located on the same server >> as >> the script, passing it the numeric data. >> (3) this swf uses the data to generate a layout in flash that is rendered >> to >> an image and either (a) returned directly as binary data to the >> server-side >> script or (b) saved locally on the server so that the server-side script >> can >> access it. >> >> It's steps 2 and 3 that have me stumped. How can I call a swf without a >> browser, and by extension, without the Flash Player? Is there some way to >> call a swf directly as an executable that can return output to the calling >> process? >> >> Thanks much! >> >> LT >> > >
