Which is the best way to monitor USB port with flex or flash?

Question

Hi,

I want to write an application that monitor the USB port, and when something is connected should show the contents of the drive (image viewer) automatically.

there is any way to do that with Flex/Flash directly? or i might program another application in C in order to monitor the USB port and then comunicate with the front-end application with sockets?

Thanks br.

Answer 1

You might find the answer(s) to this SO question helpful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/541616/talk-to-usb-device-and-vice-versa-from-flex

Answer 2

I believe this is possible with the AIR SDK version 2. It is unfortunately still in beta but should be out soon. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2/