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Controlling An Embedded Device Using Flash

Posted by Hemos on from the control-'em-all dept.

JimCricket writes "Art & Logic has just released a web server toolkit based on the open source GoAhead WebServer. The cool part is that it can communicate with Flash presentations using XML-RPC. The idea is to create GUI's to control embedded devices using Flash in addition to (or instead of) HTML. They've posted a little demo running on Windows, but in the real world the server would run on a low-power device. Seems like a great idea for the embedded world, given that Flash interfaces _can_ be very low-memory (as long as Flash designers stick to the vector-based graphics and ActionScript)."

6 of 174 comments (clear)

  1. Hello by by+Linus+Torvalds · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I invented Lunix not Flash. plzfxthxHTH!

  2. Hello again by by+Linus+Torvalds · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    You haven't fixed the article to talk about Lunix (which I invented).

    I would change it myself with my knowlege of the Lunix colonel, but I am busy begging for a redundancy package from Transmeta.

  3. Hi there by by+Linus+Torvalds · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    I reread the article (which still hasn't been fixed to talk about my Lunix instead of Flash) and noticed that it talked about a Windows system.

    I invented Lunix not Windows, so could you fix that as well TIA!

  4. Hello all! by by+Linus+Torvalds · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I noticed you say that Flash applications can use a small amount of memory. I wrote Lunix and Lunix uses a small amount of memory, not Flash. If you could work that into the article please I would be grateful.

  5. Hi again! by by+Linus+Torvalds · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You've said that in the real server world it would be on a low power device. You didn't mention that it would use my OS called Lunix, as this takes less power than others. Perhaps you could rephrase?

  6. Fuck off by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Jesus Christ, I love it when the creative types come out of the woodwork to endorse the visual over the textual. Listen, you tool. Pretty little pictures are not the solution to data overload. You're not supposed to browse through megs of logs. You're supposed to decide what constitutes an emergency, and put that knowledge into a piece of software. Then the software does the "browsing" for you, and sends you a message. Holy shit, what a concept.