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Monday, September 10, 2007

AS3: Talk to serial port?

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?
 
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Anonymous 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”
 
Blogger Doug Schmidt said...
September 10, 2007 6:22 PM
“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.”
 
Anonymous jensa said...
September 10, 2007 6:29 PM
“Nope. Flash can't talk to any hardware, so MDM is a good option :)”
 
Anonymous Campbell said...
September 10, 2007 6:30 PM
“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)”
 
Blogger e.dolecki said...
September 10, 2007 7:09 PM
 
Anonymous katopz said...
September 10, 2007 11:33 PM
“maybe this http://blog.hydrotik.com/”
 
Blogger e.dolecki said...
September 10, 2007 11:57 PM
“Excellent comments everyone. Very nice morsels to check out. Thank you!”
 
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