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Originally posted by Dave Flowerday
I wonder if the Flash app can use a pipe? I know some applications on Windows use pipes, so it's possible...
For those who don't know, a program works with a pipe similar to the way it works with a file, except there's no file. This would be a perfect application for a pipe. Basically, the program reading the serial port could write the data stream to the pipe, and the Flash program could read the data from the pipe. This is what I think you're trying to do now, except it eliminates the disk from the equation, and solves the file locking issues that rbayer was talking about.
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Flash I'm pretty sure can't do that - as I explained, Flash just imports either through a text file or through a server-side script. But I'm sure Macromedia has taken this into account. I'm pretty sure other Macromedia things like Director or ColdFusion are designed more for what we're trying to do, but don't hold me to that.