From: Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
Date: 2003-03-19T03:29:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question regarding drives, second phase

> However, to my way of thinking, calling it directly from Windows would be
> more efficient.

More efficient for the machine (though not noticeably), terribly inefficient
for you :) The Windows API is pretty low-level. I do little directly with
the API if I can help it. Everyone uses libraries that sit on top of the
API -- C++ has MFC, Delphi has the VCL, VB is, well, VB, Java uses the
Virtual Machine for Windows which handles all the API talking, etc etc.

Back to your problem -- will your Flash be served from a web server, or
somehow run locally? Also, what sort of access do you need to the client
drive? If you're coming from a web server, you will have very definite
limitations of what client-side things you can access. There is one caveat I
know of, and that is a certain CGI form element that should kick open a
dialog for the user to select a file for uploading to the server, or some
such -- I'm a bit hazy on that.

Chris