[thelist] Flash, COM, ActiveX

[Chris Johnston]

Mark Joslyn wrote:

>I have been tasked with developing a Flash UI for an existing product. Our
>chief engineer asked me a few questions I am having trouble finding
>information on. 
>
>Question #1:
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>Can Flash communicate with COM objects?
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>
Directly, probably not. However, Flash can communicate with ASP.NET 
which should be able to communicate with a COM object.

>Question #2:
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>can Flash communicate with ActiveX controls?
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>
Same answer as above.

>Question #3:
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>Can you emulate a right-click functionality in Flash?
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>
I am not sure. There is already a right click menu built into the flash 
player. This will capture the event before it is translated to Flash. I 
seem to remember though that it is possible to influence the contents of 
that menu though.

Basically, when it comes to flash, you have the ability to send 
information, through either a GET or a POST request to a browser/web 
page. In addition, you can receive information back from a web page. 
This means that is you place a scripting language in the middle between 
flash and whatever technology you need to access and allow the scripting 
language (php, asp.net, java, coldfusion) you can access just about 
anything you want.

If you are using .NET, Java, or ColdFusion, you also have the ability to 
use something called Flash Remoting. Check out the Macromedia website 
for information on what that is. Basically, it is just an easier way of 
communicating with a programming language.

chris
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