Sean Legassick wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 11:49:43AM -0400, Jason van Zyl wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is it possible to have non-html screens. I have made a web application
> > using Perl that has a Flash interface. I would like to use servlets to
> > replace the Perl and I'd like to use Turbine. I'm sure anything is possible
> > I just wanted to see how feasible it would be.
>
> Yes it is possible - and in fact I want to do exactly this too. The plan
> I have is to have a special Screen subclass (FlashScreen) from which all
> my screen classes that need to generate text for flash get derived. Then
> I derive from DefaultPage and check to see if the screen is a
> FlashScreen - if it is then the screen is invoked directly bypassing
> layouts/navigations, otherwise the superclass stuff gets invoked (all
> the HTML preparation).
>
> Then its's just a matter of writing out to data.getOut() and setting the
> content-type appropriately.
>
> > The whole interface is in Flash, there's no html at all. The Flash movie
> > queries the server and it sends back info formatted in a certain way
> > and it gets displayed in the browser via the Flash plugin.
>
> Are you using Blue Pacific's Turbine product? It's a source of perpetual
> confusion in our project that we use two products called Turbine :-)
>
No, I plan on using a java library that outputs SWF files. You can find
it at http://www.anotherbigidea.com/javaswf. The author indicates he's
planning on releasing it under the Apache license so it would be awesome
to integrate with Turbine. The code is really, really good. I started writing
one myself
and then stumbled across his, and it rocks.
It will generate an SWF file from an XML description. Combine that with
some XSLT logic and the skys the limit. We should work together and
get some Flash working with Turbine. That would be awesome!
Contact me privately and we'll get something started!
Jason van Zyl
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