Flash8 Talking to other applications.

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CaressC - 29 Jul 2008 12:27 GMT

Hi Folks, I've just been tasked to get Flash to talk to a DLL, The Flash
application is released as a projector and does NOT run in a browser. I'm
puzzled how I can get the DLL to talk to my flash application. I've seen I can
call the DLL functions with some Javascript, however I also comms the otherway
around. The DLL I'm talking to monitors some buttons, when a button state
changes it posts a Windows message which contains the details of which button
and the status (pressed, released etc). I need somehow to get that Windows
message into a Flash application.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Regards

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Travis Newbury - 29 Jul 2008 12:55 GMT

> Hi Folks, I've just been tasked to get Flash to talk to a DLL, The Flash
> application is released as a projector and does NOT run in a browser. I'm
> puzzled how I can get the DLL to talk to my flash application.

Flash Can't, but you can create a VB or C++ shell for your flash then
use ExternalInterface to communicate with the shell, the shell
communicates with the DLL I believe the functionality in Flash 8 was
called fsCommand. Then there is something called "FlashJester" I
have seen in these groups a while back that is more or less a pre-
built shell that does the same thing.

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Travis
Flash Crap: http://travisnewbury.blogspot.com

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