Yes, that's true, delivering to the browser is only one way of distributing an application. Sometimes you can deliver and install standalone executables (like a Flash Projector or such), and sometimes you can deliver to the desktop without requiring a system-level installation (Adobe AIR).
Most Flash and Flex is viewed inside an HTML browser, rendered by Adobe Flash Player 9. In this environment we don't have direct access to device drivers, and so everything would depend on how that "tactile screen" can send information. (If its API is similar to that of a computer mouse, then things are pretty easy. But if it's more of a haptic controller then it may not be able to communicate to something inside a browser.) jd/adobe -----Original Message----- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com on behalf of debussy007 Sent: Tue 12/18/2007 10:03 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Flex <> JavaFX <> Sliverlight <> Flash <> PB Thank you all for your replies ! I didn't understand your comment John. I am new to this and I don't know the difference about "delivering to browser" or not. Isn't it the same except that an RIA without browser just doesn't have this address bar and browser menu's ? Or are they really different applications ? Also isn't a touchscreen just like a mouse basically ? You talk about an API, an API between which components ? I will look this up. Thank you for your kind help. John Dowdell-2 wrote: > >> I need to develop an application which will allow users to interact with >> my >> server via a tactil screen. >> I have several question here. >> What technology should I use ? What type of application is the most >> adapted >> for tose kind of screens ? > > Start by investigating the API that the touchscreen offers. > > If you're delivering an application hosted within a browser, then > communicating with a local API can be tricky. But it may be possible, > depending on how the touchscreen can communicate. > > (JavaFX and Silverlight are mainly press releases at this point -- if > delivering to the browser, then you're probably looking at either > JavaScript or SWF.) > > jd/adobe > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Flex-%3C%3E-JavaFX-%3C%3E-Sliverlight-%3C%3E-Flash-tp14384496p14402231.html Sent from the FlexCoders mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
