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Monday, September 10, 2007

I am curious if anyone has seen an AS3 class or knows how to go about having AS3 talk to a serial port (like Zinc). Is this possible without a Zinc-like wrapper?

7 Comments:

Joe Johnston said...: “We have done a project with AIR connecting it to a serial port. Although we used a socket server to do the communication between the port and AS3, using bytearrays”; September 10, 2007 5:35 PM
Doug Schmidt said...: “I don't think it is possible to talk to a serial port directly via AS3. You might have some luck trying the File API in AIR (try opening /dev/tty*), but there is no provision for baud rate or framing configuration.

I've already filed a feature request with Adobe, so maybe you can add your vote for it!

In the mean time, you can use a program like serproxy (with ports available on Win/Mac/Linux) and have your AS3 code connect over a local socket to serproxy. I'm using this technique to talk to an Arduino board via AS3.”; September 10, 2007 6:22 PM
jensa said...: “Nope. Flash can't talk to any hardware, so MDM is a good option :)”; September 10, 2007 6:29 PM
Campbell said...: “You would need some sort of native proxy either in the form of a wrapper (Zinc style) or some sort of local port server (Like phidgets)”; September 10, 2007 6:30 PM
e.dolecki said...: “this looks very interesting
http://people.interaction-ivrea.it/h.barragan/flashserialinterface.html”; September 10, 2007 7:09 PM
katopz said...: “maybe this http://blog.hydrotik.com/”; September 10, 2007 11:33 PM
e.dolecki said...: “Excellent comments everyone. Very nice morsels to check out. Thank you!”; September 10, 2007 11:57 PM

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