Passing variables between Flash and Rev

[Troy Rollins]

On May 19, 2008, at 3:48 AM, Henk van der Velden wrote:

> 1. So I can have a Flash file played through revBrowser in a Rev  
> application, and have that Flash file communicate with the very same  
> Rev application through a local socket connection?

Right.

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> 2. A local socket, is that something like "127.0.0.0: port number"?

Correct again.

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> 3. Does this approach require a specific setup of the computer?

No. Though I can't say whether or not highly restrictive local  
firewalls, or anti-virus software may cause conflict, though I've done  
this process on my systems, and it has worked fine.

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> 4. Does this approach work in case of a proxy server being used on  
> the local network?

I don't see why that should matter, since you aren't actually even  
actually leaving the local system, and the IP is strictly local to the  
machine.

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> 5. And the last one, although it is Flash related it might be of  
> interest to some more Rev developers: I need to use XMLSocket()?

Sure, but the name is misleading, it is actually just a standard text  
connection.

In the end, it works like this... you have Rev start listening for a  
socket connection, you have Flash connect to it, and you start  
communicating back and forth.

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Troy
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