It might be my Director background but I would REALLY be happy if
Flash could be incorporated so that interactive flash files could be
used at what they are best for AND realbasic could get and set
parameters in actionscript.
Something like a sprite surface I suppose ( It probably shows and
still very new to RB)
The same would go for powerpoint files (displaying them inside an RB
window, controlled by RB, reading the number of slides and being able
to jump to specific slides,...). I actually found an ActiveX that
claims to be able to do this, but I can't even make it to
initialise....:-(
Bart Pietercil
On 8-feb-07, at 15:37, Stephen Tallent wrote:
On Feb 8, 2007, at 8:10 AM, Daniel Stenning wrote:
Recently someone suggested it might be a good idea of RB was able
to produce
FLASH source from RB projects, I noticed this article in the
register today
- the first time I have come across a smartphone that uses FLASH
as the
front end ( and I presume preferred app platform ) instead of
symbian or
linux etc etc..
No, its truly just using Flash as the GUI and not the OS, in fact,
its even using the Flash Lite player, which less powerful than the
regular Flash runtime. Either way, Flash definitely won over java
for in-browser apps, but thats about it. The Flash runtime is
great, but it is very small and focused for in-browser apps and
thats it. Its not really even capable of doing desktop apps on its
own, though there are numerous 3rd Party wrappers for the flash
player to help out on this, but even then, its still not great.
Its clearly not what Flash was designed for. Adobe is trying to
help in that area with a product called Apollo to be out later this
year, but thats another story.
I didn't chime in the last thread, but for lots of reasons, many
related to the above, it wouldn't be useful for RB to have Flash as
a compile target. I would be happy to elaborate off list if anyone
really cares, since this is a bit off topic and I don't want to
contribute to noise on our revived list anymore than i already have.
-stephen
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