Thanks for the ideas. Apollo was the first thing that popped into my mind too when our users asked :) this app is a prime candidate for Apollo anyway. It's an internal web app, so we have a good amount of control over our environment.
I did find an ActiveX control, I was figuring I could embed it in the HTML wrapper that I use for the Flex app, and then communicate with it from Flex via JavaScript, of course I'm not even sure that's possible with the control that I found. Thanks again, Rachel On 2/1/07, Mike Weiland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Rachel, I can't 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. There's also a way to run Director exes as services as well. The one thing I'm 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 other's have pointed out you could wait for apollo, but if your main requirement is a web app, then apollo won't 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
