[Laszlo-user] OL for Flash only

[jamesr]

Just to comment on this before it slides by, the reason to use OL vs.  
flex is far more about the advanced object/constraint environment that  
OL offers, rather then it's platform. And reaching flash APIs from OL  
is pretty natural to boot.

- James


On May 14, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Evaldas Taroza wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am starting with OL. I decided to create a simple chat  
> application, based on XMPP, in order to play a bit with OL. In XMPP  
> peers normally communicate using sockets, so the chat would leverage  
> the flash runtime only.
>
> However, everywhere I try to find out how to do flash stuff with OL  
> I stumble on comments that I should consider using Actionscript and  
> Flex instead, because the power of OL is the portability...
>
> I really want to play with OL, but apparently I will need to reach  
> some flash related interfaces. Moreover, there are libraries like  
> XIFF written in Actionscript.
>
> So several questions:
> 1. Considering that I need only flash runtime how can I use  
> available Actionscript libraries inside my LZX scripts?
> 2. Is it reasonable to choose OL for my described app? Maybe Flex is  
> a better choice?
> 3. How much flash API can I reach from OL scripts? How can I export  
> flash APIs to be available in OL?
>
> Thanks for help.
>
> Evaldas
>
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