Quick Rev <=> Flash review

[Dan Shafer]

I'd be interested in knowing how you get the Flash app and the Rev app  
to talk to each other.

Dan

On Aug 8, 2004, at 6:30 PM, Alex Shaw wrote:

> At 02:00 AM 9/08/2004, you wrote:
>> products but failed, sorry. Sadly, Actionscript has more books  
>> written about it
>> than Hypertalk ever will have.
>>
>> Andrew
>
> Just recently bought Macromedia's Flash MX 2004 Pro because I wanted  
> to create a xplat hybrid system for a client which used a full-screen  
> flash projector for the main interface (because anti-aliased vector  
> graphics rule) and rev for everything else (database, local / server  
> file ops etc). Halfway through the project now..
>
> Anyway here are my observations...
>
> Flash has certainly come along way in its last 2 incarnations. I've  
> used and taught flash for a number of years now and as a software  
> engineer thought it was fun and had a lot of potential.... just the  
> language needed to mature.. and it has, fortunately .. not as easy as  
> our favorite xtalk/transcript but that's javascript/actionscript for  
> ya. Classes seem more useful in a language like actionscript :)
> I was also impressed by the number of new built-in & 3rd-party drop-in  
> components. It now has datagrids / treelists etc .. of course all this  
> is well-presented by some smick macromedia propaganda, see  
> http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/productinfo/features/ 
> brz_tour/
> now how come the runrev team can't look as slick ;-)
>
> The development IDE is much better & having more control over your  
> vector canvas was great (actionscript now has a draw line command!).  
> Flash is far from perfect when trying to integrate it with anything  
> non-macromedia (like microsoft and apple). Anyway after a few days  
> hacking the old mchttpd stack I've ended up with my initial hybrid  
> setup, with rev / flash happily talking semi-bidirectionally via  
> tcp/ip. Next step is to get them talking xml and making use of the  
> xupdate feature (anyone done this?.. I don't need it now but it could  
> be handy in the future)
>
> Both flash and rev still require kludges for certain platform-specific  
> issues but these are [sometimes documented &] easily solved. There has  
> been some talk about embedding activex controls into rev and this is  
> certainly a good thing if you're ms-bound but I think most of us chose  
> mc / rev because of it's xplat capabilities and this project certainly  
> proved to me that it was only possible because rev is really good at  
> the basic stuff and if it can keep doing that and improving then we  
> all benefit.
>
> regards
> alex
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