[thelist] Flash, COM, ActiveX
Chris Johnston
chris at fuzzylizard.com
Fri Apr 23 14:39:29 CDT 2004
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:
>
>Can Flash communicate with COM objects?
>
>
Directly, probably not. However, Flash can communicate with ASP.NET
which should be able to communicate with a COM object.
>Question #2:
>
>can Flash communicate with ActiveX controls?
>
>
Same answer as above.
>Question #3:
>
>Can you emulate a right-click functionality in Flash?
>
>
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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