FLASH: Re: Intercommunication

[John Dowdell]

At 3:48 PM 8/1/0, Laura Mollett wrote:

> John Dowdell wrote:

>> Sidenote: Terry Schussler recently came up with a new hack in this player

>> intercommunication area... instead of asking the browser to catch messages,

>> he uses the Shockwave Player's built-in MultiUser Xtra in peer-to-peer

>> mode... he has multiple player instances talking directly to each other,

>> without needing the server or the browser to pass messages. Kinkiest thing

>> I've seen all month.... ;-)

>

> The MultiUser Xtra is a director thing, yes? But it would work for

> Flash movies (as long as the user had the full shockwave plug-in?)

> Or will it only work for Shockwave (Director) movies?


Yes, the Shockwave Player can be extended with auto-installable Xtras on

demand... the hookup code for such extensions would be a signficant

fraction of the entire Macromedia Flash Player!


(What the MultiUser Xtra does is more than just polling-based text chat...

it can send and receive media elements directly too. The peer-to-peer

capabilities are what allow multiple Shockwave instances in a page to talk

to each other without relying on the browser or server.)


I haven't worked through Terry's example yet, but I don't see a way this

could be used for multiple instances of the Flash Player in a page, sorry.

You *could* always have one instance send a message to the server and then

have the other instance poll for waiting messages, but....


jd







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