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Corneliusdog2
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April 29, 2020
Question

Control external swf

  • April 29, 2020
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Hi

I'm trying to figure out how I could control an external swf from another.

Say I've got one running on one computer and I press a button, is it possible that another swf on another computer could be controlled from the first one?

Ice looked everywhere for information but it make not be possible

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Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
April 29, 2020

ActionScript 3 has localconnection, which is designed for this sort of thing. It's not trival, but there is documentation that includes example code:

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/net/LocalConnection.html

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    Corneliusdog2Author
    Participant
    April 30, 2020

    I've been looking into that but don't think it would do what I want. Basically I want to make a menu for a shop that displays on the tv, the second one would be exported as an apk to a tablet that had buttons that controlled the menu so you could select each section rather than the tv just looping.

    Colin Holgate
    Colin Holgate
    Inspiring
    May 16, 2020

    A different approach, if you have a server that both can connect to, would be to write a text file on the server that the TV is frequent checking. That could be a file server, it wouldn't have to be an Internet server, but could be too.

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    ClayUUID
    Legend
    April 29, 2020

    Another SWF on another computer? You'll need some sort of client/server setup for that. The sending SWF would have to post a message to the server, which would have a task listening for that message, which would then dispatch it to the IP address of the computer with the other SWF as a push notification. It would all be rather complicated.

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      Corneliusdog2Author
      Participant
      April 30, 2020

      I had a feeling it was going to be rather tough to do. Thank you

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