tillurdizzy

Pete, FYI: This map showing everyone flying on VATSIM is Flash. Right-click on the image and you'll see the FlashPlayer settings. Danny

We internet guys end up using a lot of different programming languages... jack of all trades and master of none curse. The typical web page these days probably uses 4-10... its a nightmare. The Flash platform has advanced way beyond cartoon animations and video. Its own programming language, ActionScript (yes, another one), is object-oriented and as robust and powerful as Java or C++ (but we still get no respect!) :rolleyes: AIR makes it possible to use the same language to program for both internet and desktop. So I have this idea to make a "Pilots Handbook", that would just compile into one application a lot of procedures and resources you can already find on the internet, like decoding METARs, calculating descent rate, ATC Contact, Aviation alphabet, etc. etc. It's really not necessary that I get data from FS, it would save time and be handy if say, when calculating descent rate, I could pull the aircrafts current altitude instead of having the pilot enter it manually. Hey Wait!!! Didn't I see something about FSUIP and Lua while poking around earlier? Take a look at this I just found: http://code.google.com/p/lua-alchemy/wiki/TypeConversions Danny

AIR is a wrapper for content developed with Flash to run on the desktop rather than in a browser. See http://onair.adobe.com/air/ I was hoping maybe Ajax/Java could be used as a bridge to obtain data from FSUIPC... sort of like Flash uses PHP to communicate with a server. Regards, Danny

Maybe by way of Java? http://www.merapiproject.net/