Sorry Henry, There's no peer to peer support for any version of Flash. You will either need to wrap the SWF in an executable (Zinc, Screenweaver, etc...) and access code that does the communication through that, or have a server in place that the two SWFs talk through.
Keep in mind that a regular HTTP server (.Net, PHP, Tomcat, etc...) will work just fine if all you care about is a polling type communication. If you need a Socket connection, either XMLSocket or RTMP then you will need something that can handle that on the server side. If that's the case, and you want something free and open source then I would recommend trying Red5: http://osflash.org (yes I'm a project manager on the Red5 team, so no one give me any crap about recommending it). There are other things like Jabber/XMPP servers ( http://jivesoftware.org ) that can use the XMLSocket class for communication, and give some basic chat functionality off the bat. I can also conceive of a way to run Red5 on both machines and have them communicate with local copies of Red5 that talk to each other over a socket, but I'm not sure you would get much advantage over the client server model. The difference would be if you wanted them to talk via UDP or something, which Flash doesn't support by itself. John Grden and myself have been doing a lot of experimenting with local Red5 applications so this is why this thought came to me. Now if the two SWFs were on the same machine then you could use LocalConnection to talk between them, but that's not what you are looking for it seems. Sorry for the long answer to your question, but hopefully that gives you some idea of what you can pull off with Flash. -Chris On 10/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, I hope I can get some help here. Is it possible for two Flash movies, each on individual computers connected on a LAN network, to communicate with each other without using a communication server? What would be a good solution to this. Thank you, Henry _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
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