flash and rs232 port

[Toby]

Does anyone have any information on getting flash to communicate with an
RS-232 port?

I found one prior thread on the topic but it was dated from 4 years ago,
so perhaps there has been some change since then?

[url]http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.macromedia.flash/browse_frm/thread/c36469104be6f743/b141a4dc9adac723?q=macromedia+flash+rs232#b141a4dc 9adac723[/url]

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[Brandon Bradley]

Flash is still restricted from interacting directly with the system for
security reasons. If you need this sort of direct interaction with the
systems hardware you may want to take a look at using Director as it can
communicate with the rs232 port.


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[timberfish]

On 2005-03-22 05:27:30 -0800, Toby <google@asktoby.com> said:

>
> Does anyone have any information on getting flash to communicate with an
> RS-232 port?
>
> I found one prior thread on the topic but it was dated from 4 years ago,
> so perhaps there has been some change since then?
>
> [url]http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.macromedia.flash/browse_frm/thread/c36469104be6f743/b141a4dc9adac723?q=macromedia+flash+rs232#b141a4dc 9adac723[/url]

Using

>

Using FSCommands you can execute exe files and thus run an app that can
pass data along to anything you like.
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[Toby]

On 2005-03-22, timberfish <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

> On 2005-03-22 05:27:30 -0800, Toby <google@asktoby.com> said:
>

>>
>> Does anyone have any information on getting flash to communicate with an
>> RS-232 port?
>>
>> I found one prior thread on the topic but it was dated from 4 years ago,
>> so perhaps there has been some change since then?
>>
>> [url]http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.macromedia.flash/browse_frm/thread/c36469104be6f743/b141a4dc9adac723?q=macromedia+flash+rs232#b141a4dc 9adac723[/url]

>
> Using

>>

>
> Using FSCommands you can execute exe files and thus run an app that can
> pass data along to anything you like.

Oh, now that is a good idea.

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[Jeckyl]

>> Using FSCommands you can execute exe files and thus run an app that can

>> pass data along to anything you like.

> Oh, now that is a good idea.

Except it isn't really true .. you can run the exe .. but cannot pass
information from the SWF to the EXE (not since Flash Player 6)

You may be better with a third party tool that allows passing of info.

Alternatively (and better, as its all done in the one program) with
SWiSHstudio ([url]www.swishzone.com[/url]) (for example) you can write your own
extensions in C/Basic and call them from the SWF movie. This is probably
also possible with other third party tools (don't know for sure).

Jeckyl

[Toby]

On 2005-03-23, Jeckyl <Jeckyl@Hyde.com> wrote:

>>> Using FSCommands you can execute exe files and thus run an app that can
>>> pass data along to anything you like.

>> Oh, now that is a good idea.

>
> Except it isn't really true .. you can run the exe .. but cannot pass
> information from the SWF to the EXE (not since Flash Player 6)

Unless it was only a few simple messages you had to send over RS232, in which case,
you could compile one external executable for each command you want to
send, and call them each individually.

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[Brandon Bradley]

Jeckyl wrote:

> This is probably
> also possible with other third party tools (don't know for sure).

Not sure of any in specific that they have to do this and am feeling
lazy enough to not look it up this morning, but I wouldn't be surp[rised
if [url]www.flashjester.com[/url] had some 3rd party tool to do this as they seem
to have a lot of them that get around some of the primary flash security
restrictions imposed by the player.

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[Jeckyl]

Don't think its a security restriction thing .. its just not the sort of
thing flash player would do. Flash Jester do not seem to have something
ready made for this purpose ... nor can I see anything about adding custom
commands to a projector there ... so I don't know if they do that either. I
can only say that you should be able to do this with SWiSHstudio by making a
custom command dll. SWF studio let you have plugins .. similar idea I
think. And Flash Studio (now called Zinc) has the same.
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