Serial Port Communication in AS3 or AS2

[gjgcomp]

Hello,

In a project that I'm working on, I have to be able to read input data from a serial port. The input data will be very simplistic in nature. I'm guessing more like a on/off, yes/no, true/false style of operation.I have found some examples in other languages, but nothing in AS3 or AS2. Could anyone send any sample code or a link to a tutorial that gives me some lead way on this? Which approach is better, going with a Flash projector piece, or building it in AIR? The final piece will be on a PC based system.

Thanks for any assistance/guidance available.

[funkysoul]

Flash is not able to communicate with any USB / Serial ports. AIR is more realistic but even then you need some kind of bridge that communicates with the OS.

http://www.merapiproject.net/ (this one might ease the communication between AIR and Java)

maybe AIR 2.0 will bring some more support, don't know..

[Guest]

You can do it with Flash, but you will need to use one of the various 'wrapper' applications. I've used SWFKit for just this purpose, and it worked perfect.