> In the meantime I'd like to chime in that the application I'm making > really must work off line as well as on line, as many of our potential > users may not have regular internet access! > Occasionally connected applications? Adobe Air > If it's an installable, it really has to be dead-easy to install, would > any of the solutions you guys just mention allow the application to be > easily installed [Windows, OSX, Linux] AND run off line or on line? It > Adobe Air. Cross-platform, and dead-easy installation. Try installing Snitter: http://snook.ca/snitter/ Click on "Install Now". It will install the Adobe Air framework and the application without great complication. (At least, it works like this for me) in all cases, > local files need to be read/written, Written? Forget Flash on the Flash Player. The AVM limits the access to the local disk for security purposes. But you can use Actionscript to throw browser's open/save dialogs, and bypass 50% of the problems.
> and any software + data updates > need to be synced between on and off line running versions [if > distinctly different version] - which potentially complicates things. > Doesn't seem a problem. And, if you need to have all the clients synchronized (don't care if they're using the web on desktop-based version), you can go with Adobe BlazeDS (free/open-source). Or, if you need to go with a more robust solution, you can try LCDS. Hope it helped. :) João Saleiro -- www.riapt.org www.webfuel.pt _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
