Re: [Iaxclient-devel] Flash IAX2 client?

[Steve K. <st...@st...>]

On Nov 28, 2004, at 12:21 PM, John Todd wrote:

>
> This may be off-topic, since it's not an "iaxclient" specific request, 
> but it's the closest list to the topic:  Has anyone developed a 
> Macromedia Flash client for an IAX2 library?  Flash seems to have the 
> right components - decent media control, good cross-platform 
> compatibility, and a robust development community.  It might not be a 
> hard job at all.  In fact, I'm betting that someone out there already 
> has one, and that I'm merely ignorant of it's existence.  :-)   Anyone 
> have any leads or ideas on this?  It would be great trick to have a 
> client with no footprint at all in the native system.
>
> Macintosh, Solaris, Linux(/BSD), Windows - they all have Flash 
> capability, which is enough of the market to make me happy. Designing 
> once, deploying once, no-admin installs all sound pretty convenient to 
> me.  What's the major holdback for something like this?

We're planning on doing something that meets all your criteria, with 
Java instead of Flash.

To do this in Java, you basically take Stephen Uhler's "iaxcli" program 
(in simpleclients/tkphone), and write a signed Java Applet which 
executes it and communicates with it via a co-process model, just like 
his tcl/tk front-end does.   I would guess you can do the same thing 
with flash if you can execute a program and talk to it via 
stdin/stdout.

-SteveK