superabe wrote: > The app in question is a desktop app that serves up map images. > Central is not an option because the Flex appp needs to have its own > branded UI. > > The local connection approach is probably most suited to this case. >
No one has mentioned XMLSocket yet. Embedding the Active-X and using LocalConnection is a lot of work to go through. It'd be much easier to write a simple Socket server to run locally on some port (you can do this in like 20 lines of C# / Java code, prolly 4 lines of python code). Then, use the XMLSocket class in flash to connect to "localhost" on the port. Then, via the xml socket connection, you can send xml packet from the .swf to the "server running on the local computer" and have that server perform "desktop-like" actions based on what the message was. -d -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
