TonyMontana — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 21:16:57 +0000

I read yesterday that the XMLSocket is indeed the method Flash 5 and MX uses to push unrequested data to the user without refreshing.

TonyMontana
electricmountain.com

Wil — Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:15:42 +0000

Well I managed to figure this out after a serious amount of RedBull -- check out the results. An e-card for a client. I think the ecards are really funny and we had a right good laugh taking the photos:

http://www.rachelsorganic.co.uk/ecards/

TonyMontana — Fri, 13 Dec 2002 00:40:26 +0000

Flash has an XML socket object, you can establish a real time connection to a java socket and send and receive video, chat, online gaming etc. Flash Communications Server is being used for a bunch of stuff, probably along those lines also.

TonyMontana

Mark Hensler — Thu, 12 Dec 2002 23:43:01 +0000

Sounds more like writting an applet, but with better GUI capabilities. (goodie goodie)

zollet — Thu, 12 Dec 2002 08:39:44 +0000

Mark,

I haven't used Flash in a long time, but I know you can't send data to Flash (using a backend script) if your Flash movie has not requested it. Maybe you can do it with Java or JavaScript, I'm not sure.

Mark Hensler — Thu, 12 Dec 2002 07:46:11 +0000

I have very little experience with Flash. I know you can send a HTTP Request, then receive and parse the HTTP Response (with their ActionScript or whatever it's called). But I cannot see how it is even possible to push data to a flash script (i.e. - send data that was not requested).

Can really you put Java in a Flash file?

TonyMontana — Thu, 12 Dec 2002 06:19:46 +0000

Yes, you can send and receive data from the server to the .swf file, Perl, PHP, ASP, JSP, .net, ColdFusion etc, or even setup a real time java socket connection.

TonyMontana

Mark Hensler — Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:07:42 +0000

I don't know if you can push data into flash, but I've pulled it from flash. Meaning, I've had Flash request a url which did some processing, then returned data for it to parse.