Communicating with Serial Port using Adobe Flash

Question

Hi There,

Just wondering if there is any way to access the serial port directly in adobe flash ?

Many thanks,

Stuart

Answer 1

Flash cannot access the serial port without assistance from some sort of external proxying mechanism.

Answer 2

Yes -- using Zinc. http://www.multidmedia.com/ The process is a little bit longer though and you need extra software - Basically, you import Zinc's classes and call them via as3 to access the serial port. You publish flash, and then you publish the swf you just made through Zinc into a exe/app/linux binary