Hello John!
thanks very much for your feedback!
I have done further investigations today, basically when i am talking about
"cross-plattform" i think of it in a sense that i can implement an active-x
host under windows (which i already have got!) and some other solution for
OSX. As long as the code compiles cross-plattform using various #ifdef's
it's fine to me.
The main "cross-plattform" aspect for me actually is Flash itself. - Reusing
the user-interface on multiple platforms.
Concerning the OSX implementation, i consider the following solutions:
1) using webKit (an easy one, i got this working today however i don't think
the scripted communication between Flash Player and my code is a nice way to
do it!)
2) hosting a netscape plugin
3) XPCOM
4) writing my own webkit plugin host (at the moment i consider this to be
the best solution)
I consider 4) the most useful way of implementation in my case, especially
if you're considering i want to implement the Flash 8+ external API as well
as the fact that i am not running a standalone application but i want to use
flash for VST audio-plugins and/or AU audio units.
I'd be very interested what you think about the things I've written above,
wheter you thing writing a Webkit Plugin Host would be a nice way.
Thanks,
Frank
p.s.: i've mainly oriented myself at Flash OSX projector tools. One was
using webkit, and another one - i assume - did use it in a more "native" way
(i assume way #4). Any tips/help/thoughts are highly appreciated.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Dowdell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Flashcoders mailing list" <flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How-To access Flash Player from C++ on OSX ?
Frank Baumgartner wrote:
I've already been Flash Player together with custom C++ solutions under
Windows and it's working nicely.
However, at the moment i am very interested on cross-plattform
development using flash for user interfaces on both windows and OSX, but
i've got very little experiences on OSX development, especially
concerning the topic "how to access flash player on OSX !?".
This might be tricky, cross-platform. Here's the background:
Netscape 2.0 introduced a cross-platform browser extension mechanism,
named Netscape Plugins. These platform-specific extensions were installed
at the application level, into the browser, and could then support
cross-platform SWF files.
But Microsoft used a different extension mechanism for its Windows
browsers. They used the system-level ActiveX Controls. This is why the
nested OBJECT/EMBED structure is used, and affected why the W3C outlawed
EMBED and settled on OBJECT.
Because ActiveX Controls are system-level components, they can then be
invoked by any application on the system. Netscape Plugins, though, are
bound to the application space instead of the system space. That's why
it's easy to do what you're doing on Windows, and more difficult on other
platforms, or on Windows boxes which prefer Firefox to IE.
If your XCode skills include the hosting of Netscape Plugins, then you
might be able to tap into the Mozilla Plugins folder yourself, or else ask
your audience to copy the plugin into your own local directory (or do it
during installation, etc). I haven't studied how XCode handles this, and
how easy it makes it to host Netscape Plugins, but that would be the path
on anything other than a straight Microsoft system.
jd
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