Thanks for the response! Since this is an INTRANET (and the SWF is sitting on an accessable file server) I can either use a browser OR the flash player to run the SWF. My choice. (which ever is EASIER). This OCX is written in VB and expects to run under most 3GL's (Delphi, VB, C, etc.). Does this make my implimentation easier?
Thanks Bruce --- In [email protected], John Dowdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > boy_trike wrote: > > I am considering re-writing a traditional client-server application in > > Flex. This will be an > > INTRANET application and all of the clients have a registered OCX that my > > app has to > > communicate with (Interfaces with a phone dialer). > > If all of your audience must use an OCX phone-dialer, then it sounds > like they're all using the Microsoft browser for Windows. (This is the > only browser family which uses ActiveX as an extension mechanism.) > > Flex lives in your development flow and on your server, and it's a SWF > which is delivered to their browsers to render. SWFs in IE can > communicate with other ActiveX Controls, with the best communication > being with those ActiveX Controls which expose a VBScript/JScript > interface (Microsoft's "JavaScript" analogues). > > Two steps here: > -- First confirm that the OCX dialer supports a suitable JavaScript > API; then > -- Do a Google search on "externalinterface flex" to find the range of > resources on implementing it. > > Such work is usually a little trickier than standalone work, because > you're asking the plugin, the browser, and the third-party control to > all behave as you expect, but it's definitely an achievable goal. > > jd > > > -- > John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA > Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd > Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna > Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ > Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. > -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
