Hi Rachel, I can¹t think of a solution without installing something on the end users computer. If your requirements will allow you such an install then you might be in luck. A few years ago I was looking this very solution, I ended up doing my application in Central, but in the process I came up with 2 theories that could work. The first was to build a C# application that runs as a service with a Flash movie embedded inside of it that communicates back and forth with the main application via localconnection. The second was to do the same with Director, a third party Xtra has task bar methods so you could use that and communicate the back and forth with localconnection. There¹s also a way to run Director exes as services as well.
The one thing I¹m not sure of as I write this is updates to the Flash security model. Can a web app talk to a local SWF anymore? Might want to check into that before you embark on any other endeavors. As other¹s have pointed out you could wait for apollo, but if your main requirement is a web app, then apollo won¹t be a good fit for that. But maybe it can be configured as a service and run it that way so then you could write the service in apollo and communicate back and forth. That would be cool! Good luck, Mike ----------------- Mike Weiland Aspen Tree Media (877)659-1652 | FAX: (512)828-7105 http://www.AspenTreeMedia.com http://www.CertificateCreator.com - Create & Print Awards and Certificates On 1/31/07 4:12 PM, "Rachel Maxim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I need to create a Windows Taskbar notification (like the Outlook "new > message" balloon) from Flex. I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a tool for > doing this, I'd expect it to be some type of ActiveX or COM object. I'm using > ColdFusion on the back end. I know almost nothing about Windows programming, > but I've found a few tools online that seem to be the right direction, still > if anyone has already built anything like this with Flex and/or CF I'd love to > hear your advice. > > Thanks > Rachel Maxim > > >
