JaggedSac on 01 November 2008
| SamuelRSmith said: Question: Can you launch other applications through Flex? Like, for the example above, if someone wanted to launch a game, would that be possible? How about with special parameters, like launching the game with the intention of connecting to a specific server (ie - how xfire works). |
Hmm...I am a Flex noob, so I am not completely sure on this but, it depends on what you mean by launch a game. Do you mean to launch a game that is installed on the hard drive? If that is the case, I do not think Flash is given the right to run anything on the client. I could be wrong but that seems like a security issue. I am unfamiliar with XFire, is it a web app or a client side app? Because if XFire is a web page that is able to fire off some commands with JavaScript, then Flex would be able to speak to some JavaScript in the page as well. And if it could do that, then passing parameters would be no problem as well, depending on what the game allowed.
