The real value of Apollo would be cross-platform applications. I can't
run your DLL's on my Mac. If you need DLL's, use VB to build your app,
and don't tease me with the false hope of a cross-platform application
by building with Apollo and then ruining it with windows-only code. :)
Shan
Jason Hawryluk wrote:
I have to agree here, if we can't extend it with our own dll's then
what is the real value proposition for Apollo.
I think support for dll’s is important (com, managed, other). Allowing
us to reuse our existing middle tiers/frameworks, and use Apollo to
create engaging user experiences.
jason
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de* Jerome Clarke
a.k.a sinatosk
*Envoyé :* vendredi 2 février 2007 16:54
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*Objet :* Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features
To be honest... all this talk I've been hearing about Apollo being
used as desktop applications using web technologies... I would
kinda expect that you can launch exe passing parameters ( like CLI
style or something similar ), talk to dynamic libraries like .dll
( Windows ), .so ( Linux )... kinda surprised it doesn't support
any of that yet... yet they call it desktop applications... it's
more like their own browser in my opinion... I doubt this is how
Apollo will be all the way. But if it does... can't say people
will move to it quickly while MDM Zinc is there being able to do
all of that ( regardless Zinc is free or not ) and WPF/E
I had plans to write applications where I can use SQLite, MySQL,
GD2, run servers using TCP/IP on specific ports and ip addresses,
video codecs like divx, xvid and others... if all I can do is talk
to the file system then I may aswell stick with Flex 2... The only
use I can see that for is for offline storage applications like
the ebay application and Amazon application... Thats what alot of
people want to do anyways but thats not the only thing they want
to do...
but then again I'm assuming quite abit here... I havn't got full
info about Apollo... but what I've been hearing about WPF/E
compared to Apollo... I'm assuming Apollo can't do some of the
things I said above and I'm not interested in WPF/E. As far as I
know... only works on Windows but I still watch it to see what
people say about it... I like to be cross platform
I use Flex 2 alot for the things I'm doing now. I don't think I
will be using Apollo as much as I thought I predicted as I do with
Flex 2
On 2/2/07, *Kevin Newman* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Tom Chiverton wrote:
> Does anyone or has read somewhere, if Apollo will allow you
to launch native
> local applications ?
>
As far as I know, Apollo is using webkit, does this include
the ability
to run other plugins besides Flash (like Java)?
If so, can you use one of those other plugins (java, or
perhaps a custom
plugin) to access native dlls and such by communicating from
Flash to
Javascript, then to the other plugin in Javascript?
Kevin N.
