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6 Replies Last post: Oct 12, 2006 6:42 PM by Vladimir Ikryanov  
Jesper Sahner Pedersen  
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Sep 7, 2006 1:46 PM

JExplorer and Flash

Hi!

 

I a similar way that JExplorer uses DOM to parse XML/HMTL I wonder if Flash-components can be "parsed" as well?

 

As an example say that a webpage has a Flash stock-ticker. I then want to retrieve the stock prices shown, when the ticker is updated.

 

If this is not possible I would like to know:

- are there any plans to integrate Flash into JExplorer like DOM? (is it possible??)

- are there any workarounds like replacing the Flash player with a Java emulator thereby providing a kind of "backdoor".

 

Regards,

Jesper

Jesper Sahner Pedersen  
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1. Sep 9, 2006 11:34 PM in response to: Jesper Sahner Pedersen
Re: JExplorer and Flash

Hi again,

 

Guess the answer is using ComfyJ to integrate Flash.

 

Are there any simple examples combining JExplorer and ComfyJ, i.e. an example with a simple webpage containing a simple Flash-application showing how Flash-variables can be accessed in a similar way that JExplorer accesses DOM-elements?

 

Regards,

Jesper

Vladimir Ikryanov TeamDev Ltd.
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2. Sep 11, 2006 6:24 PM in response to: Jesper Sahner Pedersen
Re: Re: JExplorer and Flash

Hi Jesper,

 

Please find the attached examples that demonstrates how you can get Flash-variables values using JExplorer.

 

Vladimir

 

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Jesper Sahner Pedersen  
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3. Sep 12, 2006 3:55 PM in response to: Vladimir Ikryanov
Re: Re: Re: JExplorer and Flash

Hi Vladimir,

 

I think you got me wrong or I am not expressing myself clear enough. I am not looking for parameters held in the HTML-part. That part is easy to retrieve using DOM as you suggest. What I am looking for is the integration with the .swf-file itself using ComfyJ.

 

If e.g. the Flash-application is a stock-ticker I want to be able to capture the stock-prices and read them into Java combining JExplorer and ComfyJ.

 

To do this I need to know the ActionScript-code in the .swf-file, and of course decompiling the .swf-file is an exercise in itself. However tools are available for this part, so it is assumed, that the ActionScript-code is well-known. In the stock-ticker example the stock prices could be some dynamic text in the Flash-application.

 

Are there any examples combining JExplorer and Flash/ComfyJ in situations similar to the stock ticker-example?

 

 

Regards,

Jesper

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4. Oct 11, 2006 1:53 PM in response to: Jesper Sahner Pedersen
Re: Re: Re: Re: JExplorer and Flash

Hi Jesper,

 

You can try to get IDispatch instance of the Flash element in the HTML Document and create IShockwaveFlash object using this instance whereupon you can to use the IShockwaveFlash object as in the FlashIntegrationSample example. For example:

 


IHTMLDocument3 documentPeer = new IHTMLDocument3Impl((IHTMLDocument2) document.getDocumentPeer());
        IHTMLElementCollection elements = documentPeer.getElementsByTagName(new BStr("OBJECT"));
        for (int i = 0; i < elements.invokeGetLength().getValue(); i++)
        {
            IDispatch flash = elements.item(new Variant(i), new Variant(i));
            IShockwaveFlash shockwaveFlash = new IShockwaveFlashImpl(flash);
        }

 

Vladimir

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5. Oct 11, 2006 11:05 AM in response to: Vladimir Ikryanov
Re: Re: Re: Re: JExplorer and Flash

Hi Vladimir,

 

Thanks, I will try this out.

 

A suggestion: In your JExplorer-tutorial most examples are focused on using DOM with JExplorer. However many webpages contain not only plain HTML but also Flash-components, Java-applets and other components. Therefore you could consider making some thorough examples combining JExplorer and ComfyJ.

 

Regards,

Jesper

Vladimir Ikryanov TeamDev Ltd.
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6. Oct 12, 2006 6:42 PM in response to: Jesper Sahner Pedersen
Re: Re: Re: Re: JExplorer and Flash

Hi Jesper,

 

Thank you for your suggestion. We will create the examples combining JExplorer and ComfyJ.

 

Vladimir

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