Embedded ActiveX in a Flex app

We have a requirement to embed a signed ActiveX control in
both a Flex and an AIR application. Flex does not support HTML
content, but AIR does, but it still filters out the Object tags. We
are looking for some help to see how we can achieve this, either
via a custom component or a hook available to make this possible.
We've explored the iFrame approach, but have run into more issues
than solutions with that approach.
Thanks!

Hi Cnunciato,
Can you please expalin a bit more the whole process with which i willl be able to use activex in flex and which will also help in hoating activex in IE.
If you could provide some link to some example or some sample code , i would be highy grateful.
Thanks
Vasu Gulati.

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We want to be able to export to pdf in our flex app. I know alivePDF among others do this. However, we want to take the extra step to be able to embed flex into the pdf itself - making the pdf interactive and not just a report. Is there a third party library that someone can recommend that can do this? I believe lifecycle services does this, but we don't have a license.
Thanks in advance.

You must use the 3.4.1 SDK that is provided on LiveCycle DVD or from an installation of Workbench (See the Customizing LiveCycle Workspace ES2 at at http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/customizeworkspaceui.pdf or the Creating Flex applications enabled for LiveCycle Workspace ES2 guide http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/createflexapps.pdf guide).
There are functions in the SwfConnector component that allows you to communicate with the IFrame but as far as I know, there are no APIs that are exposed.
I'll defer to others if they know about it.
Hope that helps!

Is it possible to embed an external control (eg ActiveX) into a Flex app?

I'd like to build an app, and Flex seems to be a good option.
The Flex stuff would be hosted in an application within the Adobe
ActiveX Flash Player. The communication between the hosting
application and the Flex application would be possible via the
ExternalInterface. However, I'd need to embed a special control (in
fact a word processor) in one of the panels of the Flex
application. Is there a way to do it? It could be a browser window
as well.
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I am new to flex myself but as musch as i know and if i have
rightly understood your problem than if the control is compatible
to flex ie: written in action script version supported by the flex
version you are using than you can create a library project and add
the action script code to it. now add the flex library project or
the resulting .SWC file to your original project's library build
path. your new control will apear in the custom controls
list

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Flex noob with no real Flash experience. I have successfully
loaded a Flash analogue clock swf file into an app I'm
experimenting with in Flex. I used the image tag and is works well.
I would like to also embed a Flash movie which is a news scroller.
This movie calls in an external XML file as it's text source (who's
content I change dynamically with php) and the original movie was
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anyone explain how Flex handles Flash movies like this?,
many thanks,
Mike

I found a solution to my problem so I thought I'd answer my
own question here for the good of others who may experience the
same issue. When using Flex on your local machine (localhost),
security precautions inherent in Flash prevent the movies from
showing up in Flex. Once I tested on the production server the
movies showed up fine. The problem was nothing to do with the
param's being passed in and Flex did not need any of the info from
the html wrapper as far as I can make out,
Hope that saves another newbie from some hair pulling,
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Generating PDF with Flex App (swf) embedded

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Does anyone has the experience in developing a Flex Application that is to be
embedded into a PDF and open in the Reader/Acrobat for data capturing?
How to embed the Flex Application (swf) into a PDF in a Livecycle process?
With the XML data prepopulated into the PDF (embedded with a schema) and
accessible by the Flex Application when open in Reader/Acrobat.
Users will still be able to save the data filled in the Flex Application into the PDF
and also to generate a XML data (with data capturing in the Flex App) to be
submitted back to the server.
How can these be achieve? Any example?
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Just wondering, am I in the correct section of the forum? it seems like most of the discussions listed here are related to form designing rather than form rendering.
I know this is FORMS ES section, just that i come across something that might related to the topic.
Has anyone try out Adobe LiveCycle PDF Generator ES2 new features?
Based on Adobe Upgrade Center http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/upgrade/pdfgenerator.html, it mentioned that PDF Generator ES2 has the ability to embed SWF files in PDF.
But is this also applicable to Flex Application compiled SWF file?
Does the generated PDF function as a normal interactive form?
Able to retain its embedded schema and objects (scripts)?
I will try to install LC ES2 to try out but need sometime to setup the system, really appreciate if someone can give me a head start.
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Embedding HTML page into Flex using Adobe AIR

Hi,
This is Siva Kumar. Need help in embedding an HTML in Flex .
We are using Adobe Air. To embed an HTML in Flex we used
<mx:HTML> tag. Its working fine but whts the problem is its
not allowing to download files / attachements. I tried to use
google flex iframes to resolve this issue. I am able to download
files/attachments if I open application as web / standalone. If I
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Internet Explorer ActiveX, Firefox, Mozilla 1.7.5 and greater, or
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Ebedded Flex app does not play automatically

I have a flex app that is embedded in a web page.
When the page loads for the first time the app does not run
automatically but is in "loop" mode.
In order to embed the application in the html page we have
copied the html and javascript files that the Flex builder
generates :
AC_OETags.js, history.htm, history.js etc.
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subsequently it loads and plays automatically.
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Thanks for your answer, we found a similar workaround.
We did the following:
1) disable automatic starting of the SWF in the script that
created the plugin by adding these parameters:
"play", "false",
"loop", "false",
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isMovieLoaded = true;
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swf.Play();
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delayed call to playMovie in the html-template does nothing,
because the flag isMovieLoaded was already set by the application.
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I want to use some components from a Flex app that we are
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clients who just want to use a few (small) features of our
application.
I'm planning to use the in-process HSQLDB database and no
server-side code (i.e. no server at all), and have the following
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1. Did anyone try to this yet? Is it at all possible?
2. How can I setup a jdbc connection to an in-process
(embedded) hsqldb, without going through a server object?
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I found an answer here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/1979424#1979424
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Can I load a swf into my Flex app that loads other swf's?

The code below loads an AS2 swf into my Flex mobile for IOS app and it works. If that AS2 swf has like a circle in it that runs across the stage, it loads and displays properly when run in FlashBuilder.
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[SWF] SwfMobile.swf - 2,639,761 bytes after decompression
[SWF] assets/swf/AS2.swf - 1,470 bytes after decompression
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Ah, yes. Using an AVM1 SWF could prove difficult...
I'm going on about 3 hours of sleep at the moment, but let me toss out a few thoughts I have and hopefully something will stick...
Ok, so my first thought what to try and cast the loaded content as a MovieClip and call methods on that, but the fact they are AVM1 throws that out the window.
That leaves LocalConnection, as you mentioned. But this would require you to have code on the receiving end to handle the connection... no good either.
But what if you created a "bridge" in AS2 that holds all the code for the receiving end of LocalConnection (or has the control logic itself, perhaps even eliminating the need for LocalConnection all together!). I think maybe this is what you were trying to do already by loading a SWF into a SWF? Well instead of loading your bridge at runtime, what if you statically linked it into your project as a class?
*a few moments later*
Well it looks like you can in fact link in a a symbol created for AVM1, but it will only come in as a SpriteAsset, and will not include any custom code (which makes sense, since they use entirely different class constructs).
To do the test, I created a symbol exported for actionscript (AS2/Flash8), then linked it in with a CSS style embed. I then instantiated the class and called describeType on it.
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