mmm background eh? ;) I knew that a dll wasn't an Xtra (in this case, the dll is being written in C++, as well as most Xtra's I believe)- I was just saying earlier that I can access a dll (which is what the client is planning on writing and providing to me) through the GLU32 Xtra. That's option A for me.
Option B is to find or write an Xtra that takes the information in the custom dll and pipes it to Director. I checked the Xtras list, and around the web in general, prior to writing earlier post...no luck in finding something suitable. Does anyone know of just basic basic examples of Xtras? I subscribed to a list, but its not so active. The data feed looks like it's going to be two arrays of integers. It's actually data that's being collected from Nautilus (workout) equipment. That collection part is being taken care of by the client, and, since they're writing the collector in C++, have a couple options on how to give me that data. Some options that crossed my mind were an XML stream (probably brought into Director through a Flash Asset), accessing the dll directly with GLU32, writing my own Xtra that incorporated their code, or at least communicated with their code, dumping data into a database, or doing the same with good old text files (which I've already thrown out as an option, before it even broke the .5 second it took to become a conscious thought). Hope that provides fuel :-) Thanks again, Evan > >OK. Note, BTW, that a DLL is not an Xtra. Whatever you use in >Director, if it's an external code object, it almost certainly is not >a DLL. > >It might not hurt to hit the Xtras lists at Macromedia, partly to see >what can be done, and partly to see what other products exist. Could >be someone already wrote what you need. > >It's also possible, if you were to describe what this "data feed" was >coming from, what its natuire would be and what you needed to do with >it, that you could garner some reasonable suggestions here about how >to go about doing it. ;) > >-- > > Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ > Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting > Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide > Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill > http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L >is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
