Also, depending how cross-platform you need to be. You can also embed the Flash Player in .NET application, this works for windows. You can probably come up with another shell for Mac, if need be.
I've seen some pretty fancy Windows applications where the developers really wanted to leverage their knowledge of Flex and all they did was embed Flash, possibly through a web page and web control, onto .NET forms. Long before AIR was announced, I saw people making online/offline syncing applications using this method where the Flex app would talk to a local embedded web service that runs in the parent shell's process. Then again, part of this sounds like AIR. --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 09:25:47PM -0000, Abyss Knight wrote: > > > I don't believe you can access other applications on the system > > directly unless they are other AIR/Flex applications that you've > > written. If you were able to do this, it would be a very large > > security concern. > > I like that solution that some other guy posted in the barcode reader thread: write a > client-side server to do the intra-app communication and the Flex portion can commuicate > with it via sockets. > > Jeff >
