Flash ActiveX detailed docs?

[Dean Roddey]

Ok, I'm clearly a moron, because I cannot for the life of me find actual
documentation on the Flash ActiveX control, either on the net, news groups,
or on the Macromedia web site. Our product is a control and automation
system, and one of the pieces is an interface design system. We would like
to provide them with a 'Flash Widget' they can drop on their interfaces and
tell us what local file they'd like to play on interface load (or upon
particular events.) That's the extent of our needs. Our system is in C++ and
doesn't use any MFC or any other of the magic visual tools of MS' IDE. We
need the actual ActiveX documentation which we will be calling the old
fashioned way.

BTW, I came across probably 30 similar questions in a newsgroup search, and
as best I can tell not one of them was ever answered. I would just think
that this is something that should be a little easier to find, or maybe I
really am a moron, in which case I humbly request that someone point me to
the documentation. The search engine on the Macromedia site fails with a
database error every time I try to use it, so it's not of any use for me,
and I'm not to sanguine that it would proivde a useful answer anyway at this
point.

Thanks.

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Dean Roddey
Chairman/CTO, Charmed Quark Systems
[url]www.charmedquark.com[/url]

[Jeckyl]

there is no old fashioned way .. its an ActiveX control .. and you can use
utilities (eg that come with Visual Studio) to generate the header file and
view all the interfaces you can call. What (most of) them do is documented
in various technotes on MM site (and others) where there is discussion of
interfacing between JavaScript and flash movies (that uses the same
interfaces as you would use)
--
All the best,
Jeckyl

[Mehdi]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 04:20:48 GMT, Dean Roddey wrote:

> Ok, I'm clearly a moron, because I cannot for the life of me find actual
> documentation on the Flash ActiveX control, either on the net, news groups,
> or on the Macromedia web site.

All the doc for the ActiveX control is here:
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/publishexport/scriptingwithflash/[/url]

and here:
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_12059[/url]

[Dean Roddey]

Thank you! I'm not going to go to that Morons Anonymous meeting now...

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Dean Roddey
Chairman/CTO, Charmed Quark Systems
[url]www.charmedquark.com[/url]

"Mehdi" <vioccc@REMOVEME.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1wbmovf2hq3uo$.1flpbuttkyjmq$.dlg@40tude.net. ..

> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 04:20:48 GMT, Dean Roddey wrote:
>

>> Ok, I'm clearly a moron, because I cannot for the life of me find actual
>> documentation on the Flash ActiveX control, either on the net, news
>> groups,
>> or on the Macromedia web site.

>
> All the doc for the ActiveX control is here:
> [url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/publishexport/scriptingwithflash/[/url]
>
> and here:
> [url]http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_12059[/url]

[Brandon Bradley]

Dean Roddey wrote:

> Our system is in C++ and
> doesn't use any MFC or any other of the magic visual tools of MS' IDE. We
> need the actual ActiveX documentation which we will be calling the old
> fashioned way.

It sounds like you need to include the actual flash activeX into your
project, which MAY be considered repackaging and therefore not covered
under the general flash player distribution. So you MAY need to contact
someone over at macromedia directly to get specifics as to how to do
this and what you need to do to be covered legally.

Basic summary is that what you are trying to do is probably beyond the
intent for the Flash player and as such not something that a lot of
developers, or even most people at Macromedia most likely, can answer
your questions about.

And for the record the flash player only uses ActiveX in IE, so perhaps
you could use the non-activeX version of it for Netscape/Mozilla and
everyone else to do what you are trying?