On 7/11/06, FineLine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On a mac you wouldnt use activeX but the flash mac plugin. Quite a few companies do this in order to make what are called projectors, which are stand alone shells that let you create standalone apps that run via flash. ActiveX really *is* dead on the mac. The two primary browsers dont support it and IE hasnt been upgraded in years. An open source project that does this is called screenweaver. If you want to make your own, you might want to look at their code as a base. Otherwise I would suggest using a projector like screenweaver or one from mdm or northcode. The will allow you to integrate any native platform stuff you need including C or C++.
Regards
Hank
Thanks ryanm, I hadn't heard of this implementation before, probably because
not much has been published about it (that I can find) since its release in
1996. This doesn't fill me with confidence that it would be a workable
solution for embedding Flash content in native OSX apps.
On a mac you wouldnt use activeX but the flash mac plugin. Quite a few companies do this in order to make what are called projectors, which are stand alone shells that let you create standalone apps that run via flash. ActiveX really *is* dead on the mac. The two primary browsers dont support it and IE hasnt been upgraded in years. An open source project that does this is called screenweaver. If you want to make your own, you might want to look at their code as a base. Otherwise I would suggest using a projector like screenweaver or one from mdm or northcode. The will allow you to integrate any native platform stuff you need including C or C++.
Regards
Hank
I guess this isn't really what Flex is made for anyway. It just seems like a
nice tool to develop visual components that can be used inside other
programs. It works fine on Windows with an ActiveX host (in my case, Omnis
Studio), but I can't see a way on Mac. Presumably, even if I did build an
ActiveX integration layer, I would still need to recompile the Flash Player
ActiveX control from the source on Mac anyway - not something we have access
to.
Anyway, thanks for the idea, I learnt something new.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of ryanm
Sent: Wednesday, 12 July 2006 5:27 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Mac equivalent of ActiveX
> Open source != open specs.
>
You can get source on the web if you look for it.
> Isn't IE on the Mac dead these days anyway ?
>
Not even close. Funny how the dev geeks always seem to think so (wishful
thinking?), but server stats say otherwise.
ryanm
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