Amn
06-03-2005, 11:25 AM
Hi All !
I am a hardcore AS developer (or at least I think I am ;) and am more bothered with native Flash Player functionality than with classes MM develops "to make our lives easier" like the Remoting for example. As far as I understand these classes are NOT native to the player, and hence are compiled into native bytecode upon movie composition. I downloaded the source code for the Remoting classes, and found out that the key class they all use to actually do the work is the NetConnection.
In the ActionScript 2.0 reference, NetConnection is devoted minimal text space and does not even list the functions it actually has like the "call" method. You can read more in the Macromedia Flash Communication Server reference about the "upgraded" NetConnection object (actually the same functionality as far as I understand), but they only talk about it in the context of FlashCom server.
What I am interested in is whether there exists a "platform-independent" reference to NetConnection, to what it actually does and can do with its "connect" and "call" methods, so I can understand better what it can be used for except FlashCom and the obvios Remoting. I was also thinking of building my own Remoting set of classes, possibly incompatible with the current, delivered by MM.
Thanks for any input !
-Amn.
I am a hardcore AS developer (or at least I think I am ;) and am more bothered with native Flash Player functionality than with classes MM develops "to make our lives easier" like the Remoting for example. As far as I understand these classes are NOT native to the player, and hence are compiled into native bytecode upon movie composition. I downloaded the source code for the Remoting classes, and found out that the key class they all use to actually do the work is the NetConnection.
In the ActionScript 2.0 reference, NetConnection is devoted minimal text space and does not even list the functions it actually has like the "call" method. You can read more in the Macromedia Flash Communication Server reference about the "upgraded" NetConnection object (actually the same functionality as far as I understand), but they only talk about it in the context of FlashCom server.
What I am interested in is whether there exists a "platform-independent" reference to NetConnection, to what it actually does and can do with its "connect" and "call" methods, so I can understand better what it can be used for except FlashCom and the obvios Remoting. I was also thinking of building my own Remoting set of classes, possibly incompatible with the current, delivered by MM.
Thanks for any input !
-Amn.