[프로그래밍] Creating a Two-Way Video Chat Application in Macromedia Central http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashcom/

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Giacomo Guilizzoni

Macromedia

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
   
2. The vChat Application
   
3. The Client Side: Building the Application
   
4. The Client Side: Building the Pod
   
5. Lessons Learned

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The most exciting feature of Central, to me, is its notification mechanism. Finally you can build an application that sits in the background and attracts the user's attention only when necessary. I have been working on Flash Communication Server-powered applications for some time and I couldn't wait for this feature. A whole new set of instant messenger (IM)-style applications are now possible. Just combine Central and Flash Communication Server—the sky's the limit!

Instead of building a full-fledged IM application (I'm sure someone else is already working on it), I'll give you a little taste of what's possible when you combine a little Central code with a dash of good old-fashioned Flash Communication Server code.

Requirements

To get the most out of this tutorial you need to be comfortable developing Flash applications and familiar with Flash Communication Server concepts such as NetStreams, shared objects, and application instances. If you have never built a Flash Communication Server application before, download the documentation and come back here only after you've read "Developing Communication Applications" from start to finish.

You should also install the Central SDK and be somewhat familiar with developing Central applications. I won't be covering deployment of the two-way video chat application. Please refer to the Central SDK documentation for more information on how to distribute your Central applications.

To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:

Macromedia Central

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Macromedia Central SDK

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Macromedia Flash MX 2004

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Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX 1.5

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Tutorials and sample files:

• v_chat.zip (160K)

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About the author

Giacomo "Peldi" Guilizzoni (aka peldi.com) is a software developer for Macromedia working on Breeze Live. He maintains a Flash Communication Server blog at peldi.com/blog/ and often writes for the Macromedia Developer Center. His grandparents do not understand a single word of this article but nonetheless think it's "neat." ;)