Yes, flash speaks to sockets and so you can communicate with any net accessible object including localhost. So making a local webserver or socketserver is a solution.
hank On Dec 9, 2007 7:11 AM, justSteve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Ok...so Flex can't interact with DLLs but another thread (new to Flex) > suggests that a possible alternative. > > >> > lternatively, you can write a server application in > C++, Java or C#/.NET that interact with those devices. > Whenever the server gets input from the scanner, it > forwards that to the Flex application using Sockets. > << > > The above comment is talking specifically to a bar code reader app but > suggests that there is a way to write something that runs in the context of > the given OS that can interact with Flex. > > It's be very interesting to hear this fleshed out in greater detail. > > > > > On 12/8/07, hank williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm looking for an overview: > > > > > > Can AIR apps interact with services running locally? For example, > > > could I create a .net DLL that permitted interaction with the > > > clipboard at the native OS level? > > > > > > > No. You cannot access DLLs. > > > > Hank > > > > > > > >
