<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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. <div><br></div><div>- James<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 14, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Evaldas Taroza wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br><br>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.<br><br>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...<br><br>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.<br><br>So several questions:<br>1. Considering that I need only flash runtime how can I use available Actionscript libraries inside my LZX scripts?<br>2. Is it reasonable to choose OL for my described app? Maybe Flex is a better choice?<br>3. How much flash API can I reach from OL scripts? How can I export flash APIs to be available in OL?<br><br>Thanks for help.<br><br>Evaldas<br><br>-- <br>+41 79 616 53 76<br><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/taroza">www.linkedin.com/in/taroza</a><br><br>Optaros - <a href="http://www.optaros.com">www.optaros.com</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>