actually not need air app to do that, You can use the bytearray to encode
the image and send to your java to save that each time or in meanwhile you
need.
Regards
Igor
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:50 PM, netdeep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to run flex as an image generator on the server. Since my
server is headless, the
feedback I am getting is that it is bad practice to run flex in the browser
for a background
app.
Here's what the program does in a nutshell:
The server launches my java app. It reads a list of report definitions from
the data base. For
each report, it spawns a thread. Each thread launches my Flex application
in the browser.
Flex draws the data in charts. Each time data is pushed to the flex
application from the java
server side, Flex calls a remote java method to save it's image to a file.
This file sits in a
directory where it can be viewed in a regular old html page.
The problem is really the automated aspect. I want to have this chart
generated every few
minutes as a .png file. It works perfectly fine on my localhost machine,
but the server
deployment is so far not working. We have firefox installed on the server.
Is there no way to
launch it as a background process to draw these images? Should I turn this
into an AIR app
(I've never done anything with AIR up to this point) to make it run more
easily in the
background?
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Igor Costa
www.igorcosta.com
www.igorcosta.org
