halfcountplus has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
I just started using the ming perl bindings via the SWF modules which can be built along with libming itself. Everything has been going nicely, and now I want to incorporate some actionscript/javascript interaction. I'm totally new to actionscript so for now am just following stuff from the web. The first thing I noticed is that the ming interpreter doesn't like "import", there is a sort of note about this here:
I have not yet tried to sort this part out: "ExternalInterface will not work in a local sandbox, in order to test you must access both the movie and the holding HTML via http://". This must be specific to Ming since there is no reference to the issue in actionscript tutorials on the topic.
So I thought I'd check here to see if anyone has SUCCESSFULLY done this and if that nice person might be willing to post an example.
There is actually an unanswered bug report with libming to the effect that ExternalInterface does not work with ming.
Ming maintenance appears to have dropped off sharply in the past few years, probably because adobe introduced the free, open source FLEX for creating .swf's, whereas previous to that it was some expensive proprietary software or ming.
So now I'm all excited about flash files I guess I'll try FLEX...