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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)."

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  1. Me again by by+Linus+Torvalds · · Score: -1, Troll
    I see you are talking about XML-RPC. I asked Alan Cox about this and he told me that it is not a colonel module (in Lunix which I wrote) so perhaps you should update the article to reflect that? Maybe suggest using GNU-RPC or LNX-RPC.

    Oh, not the second one because LNX is too much like LNUX - even I laugh at LNUX when I check the ticker.

  2. Hi! A quickie: by by+Linus+Torvalds · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is ActionScript part of Lunix?

  3. Just checking by by+Linus+Torvalds · · Score: -1, Troll

    I used my mad Lunix skillz (I wrote it so I know my way around a Lunix shell LOL!) to check that the demo was being run on a Lunix server with Apache (I must ask Alan if I wrote Apache - I think I did) but I found out it used a server called GoAhead-Webs. Is this something to do with Debian?