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flashserver help

douglas adams — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:28:37 +0000

Hi, sorry for the xpost but I’m looking for some help with flashserver, it may be an obvious answer, in which case i apologise. Basically what I’d like to do is somehow include a max patch in a flash movie, I’m using flashserver at the moment and it all works fine but I’d really like to have something a bit more user friendly, basically so i can give the software to someone and they can use it easily.
It’s for a university project and I’d love to be able to use a flash interface to control max (it’s a bit easier on the eye).
Thanks
Douglas Adams

Re: flashserver help

jigen dot — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:18:15 +0000

its very easy to use and well explained on docs that you can find on the web (if you google). i think the biggest issue is flash ac (action script), from max you only send/receive (if i remember well, i was doing something similar a while ago) the script, according to the sound you want to link with each flash _mov.

in other words you got to know a bit of flash ac.

thats all i can tell you sorry!
good luck with it

Re: flashserver help

Olaf Matthes — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:40:11 +0000

Hi Douglas,

did I get you right that you want to stick to the Max/Flash combination,
just have it a bit more user friendly? You can start programs from Flash
with thomething like this:

fscommand(“exec”, “max.exe”);

That way the user would start Flash and Flash would load Max or a Max
Application. Or (at least on Windows) do it the other way round.

If you want just one file with everything inside, I have no idea. You
could probably include the swf inside a Max bundle / application, but
then somebody would have to tell me how to launch a swf from inside Max.
I did not even manage to code somthing for flashserver that launches a
swf, just the projector files (.exe on Windows).

Olaf

Re: flashserver help

Andrew Benson — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:30:31 +0000

If you’ve got Jitter, you can run the Flash movie and interact with it
in a jit.pwindow.
Check the Jitter Docs for more info.
Cheers,
Andrew B.

Re: flashserver help

douglas adams — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:02:50 +0000

Hi Olaf, good to hear from you.
Since writing that post I’ve got a SWF controlling a synth within Max… I LOVE this piece of software, thanks.
I’ve jsut tried the fscommand thing you suggested but no luck, i assume the max patch needs to be in the same folder as the swf? I’ll have to try again tomorrow.
With regards to jitter, for some reason Jitter has never worked on my sysyem despite reinstalls and driver updates, I don’t know what’s going on.
Thanks for both your help, I’ll let you know what happens.
Doug