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Re: Embedding Flash in .app
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Re: Embedding Flash in .app


  • Subject: Re: Embedding Flash in .app
  • From: Nicko van Someren <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:33:42 +0000

On 28 Dec 2005, at 18:24, Rachel Blackman wrote:

I have a situation where I need to display a Flash file as, basically, an NSView subclass. I was thinking that using NSMovieView and just loading in the Flash file would be the best way to handle it, but I've realized that there is no way I would be able to set Flash variables (which, unfortunately, I need to be able to do).

Has anyone else been crazy enough to try this in the past? Is the best way to do it just using a web view (yuck, seems like overkill) and communicating with the Flash movie that way? Or am I missing some other obvious method?

Unless there is something that you can do with the QuickTime movie handle from [[myMovieView movie] QTMovie] then I think that using a WebView is going to be your best way; the WebView option will certainly be the simplest to integrate into a Cocoa application. Once you've loaded your Flash movie this way you should be able to adjust the variables through the scripting interface.

It's worth noting that if you ask Xcode to dynamically link against the WebKit framework then there will be little bloat to your application since the framework code will not be included in what you have to ship. It is also my understanding that the code components of dynamically loaded frameworks can be shared between applications and will only reside in physical memory once, so if the user already has Safari running there the will be relatively little memory footprint. As such it is perhaps not so much overkill after all.

Nicko


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