From: Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>
Date: 2001-01-08T16:47:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8833] Re: Dynamic Flash movies from Ruby

Patrick Logan wrote:

# "Dave Thomas" <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote
# in message news:m2snmuvgrr.fsf@zip.local.thomases.com...
# >
# > Macromedia's Flash format is everywhere on the web...

Apparently so; I didn't have to download a plugin to run Dave's demos for 
either Netscape or MS I.Explorer. FAPP, that's *everwhere*. :-)

# I think I recall that Squeak Smalltalk (open source) has implemented
# support for Flash without the use of Macromedia's software. Someone
# adventurous and interested in Flash may be able to copy some of that
# code into Ruby (plus some GUI with a canvas, I don't know if Tk has
# what it takes?)

You mean standalone GUI-wise or browser GUI-wise?

I haven't used this, however ....

    http://www.scriptics.com/resource/software/tools/plugin/

| The Web browser plug-in lets you run Tcl/Tk scripts in your browser.
| For security reasons there are some limitations to your "Tclet", but
| for intranet applications you can craft custom security policies.
 
Conrad Schneiker
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