Is there a free way to use flash 5 as a client?

Networking and Multiplayer Programming

Started by Dwarf with Axe May 21, 2004 11:18 AM

1 comment, last by Dwarf with Axe 19 years, 11 months ago

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May 21, 2004 11:18 AM

I''m looking to use flash 5 as the client and whatever as the server. I can''t find anything that allows realtime data streaming or anything like that. Anyone? ~ jesse

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ddn3

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May 21, 2004 11:30 AM

I think flash uses an XML socket layer which allows you to exchange data with external servers. Might want too look into the XML interface. I wanted to do something like that as well, and that''s how we intended to do it.

Good Luck!

-ddn

hplus0603

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May 21, 2004 12:19 PM

We have a user interface that embeds Flash movies from which we extract the bitmap data and upload to textures. The Flash movies connect to the hosting application using HTTP through a custom Moniker we implement, stuffing XML down the pipe to it. We''ve found that Flash versions previous to 6.0.42 have been very unstable, though (and 7 is better than 6).

I don''t see any reason why you couldn''t do the same thing, requesting XML from some remote server. Unless that''s a feature new in 6, not available in 5.

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