I have a ActiveX control hosting a flash-player which is in turn running a flash file trying to access data from a web-address.
In an old Windows Application version of my application everything works fine and the flash file is able to access the web-content.
However, in a newer Console Appliction version of the application it can no longer access the web-content.
Any ideas what might be causing this? Is there some kind of difference between a Windows Application and a Console application in terms of security/permissions that might affect an ActiveX hosted flash-player?
I'm using Windows 7.
First of all - how did you manage to get an ActiveX into a console application? :) I think ax needs window handles and all such things...
Anyways, there are different kinds of sandboxes from the Flash player perspective, what you are seeing is the "local not trusted" kind. In order to "trust" the SWF that issues the request you would need to use this page to confirm that the location where SWF comes from can communicate to the internet.
Doing so may be a hindrance for the user, but if this is the case, you could write the trust files on your own. Example
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I need to write an application that can detect if the "Bing - Get me there" application is installed on the current phone and if so, launch it.
Is this possible? The app would need to do this for other external applications as well, so a generic method or interface for this would be helpful.
Applications run in a sandbox on Windows Phone and there is no way to tell if other applications are installed unless you are writing both of them and you use a method to announce to other applications that you are installed and they know how to read that announcement.
2 approaches to such announcements would be:
Have both (all) apps synchronise with a web server and report which devices they have been installed on. The apps can the query which other apps have been installed on that device.
Have all apps write a file to a location where all apps can access. The only place to do this is the PicturesLibrary so you have to embed the identifier in the name of the image or in its contents and be able to query all images to identify the other installed apps. The user could manually delete any images you create in this way though.
Beware, neither method can tell if the other app has subsequently been uninstalled though so this is far from foolproof.
As far as I know, there's no way to do that.
Applications on Windows Phone run in complete isolation, and can not act with other applications, other than some highly specialized apps (i.e. for playing media).
We have a very basic web application which uses AJAX to pull data from XML files for a simple autocomplete and search script.
Our client wants to distribute this application on CDROM to their clients rather than running from the web.
Basically all we really need is a way to wrap these html, xml, js & css files into executables that will work on Windows, Mac & Linux. Basically the user should just need to run the one file to load the application into a typical desktop window.
We have investigated the following:
Titanium Desktop SDK - we received errors when packaging to linux & mac distributables. Also, the Windows distribution requires an install process which we want to avoid. The user should just be able to run the file directly from the CD without needing to install anything on their Desktop.
Zinc 4.0 - using the HTML wrapper resulted in an executable similar to what we need - but only for Windows. Also, the rendering engine used seems to lack support for transparencies which interferes with our design.
Stunnix Advanced Web Server - We really want something that doesn't require installations, or the startup of a bunch of extra services.
Mirabyte DiscStarter - Only supports windows and like Zinc, seems to use an old IE rendering engine without support for transparencies.
What we really need to know is there anything that can simply "wrap" a basic AJAX app to enable it to be run cross-platform on desktops without internet access?
If you include just the HTML file, when someone clicks on it, that local copy will open instantly in their browser.
If you needed to, you could open a separate window using JavaScript which contains that HTML page, that way it has it's own window.
You can create a desktop application built with HTML/CSS/Javascript using either of the following two frameworks
TideSDK
AppJS
I'm trying to solve a similar problem as was described here - to create a Windows Service for taking snapshots of rich webpages (html+js+flash) and saving them to a PDF file.
The bundle Firefox+cmdlnprint did the trick for me. I wrote a simple program running as a service that invokes Firefox to make a PDF. All seems well, the PDF gets created, but Flash is completely missing. Although, when started not as a service, Flash renders just fine.
Can anyone shed a light on what blocks Flash from rendering and if there's a workaround?
thanks!
I can only shoot into the dark here but two things come to mind:
Who (which user) is your service running as? What happens if you make the service run under the administrator user?
If your service is running on the local system account, have you enabled the "allow exchange of data between desktop and service" check box for the service (Don't know what it's named in english)? You never know what Flash may need to run.
If that doesn't work out, have you looked at Crowbar and XULRunner? I don't know for sure whether they do what you need - and if they do, whether Flash works with them - but they seem to be approaches to the same thing you are trying to do.
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So far, the best thing I have found is to download yourself a copy of pGina and for 2k/XP modify the GINA, and for vista/win7 you will need to create custom login credentials (pGina have the tools/samples to interface with the Vista/Win7 architecture).
to confirm -- it appears that this is what Novell are doing with Vista/Win7 rather than the traditional method of replacing the GINA (like in 2k/XP)
If anyone else comes up with a way to run an application on the logon screen in Win7 please post it.
Ok I'm writing some vb6 software that requires input before the user logs on to the system.
Basically I want to run an application on the Windows logon screen where the user can interact with the program. At present I have the application running as a service allowing to interact with the desktop, but it is still now showing.
I know that "Allow service to interact with desktop" will work in Windows 2000 / XP, I'm running Windows 7 - I am also aware that services cannot directly interact with a user as of Windows Vista - saying this, are there any other methods to get my application running on the logon screen. Novell does it
Does anyone have any other ideas to get this working?
You can only do this if you are authenticating the credentials yourself. Prior to Vista, this was done via GINA, but since Vista, you need to write your own Credential Provider.
The reasons behind this are buried deep in the security principles -- Ctrl-Alt-Del will only ever bring up the window station associated with login (etc), and no other application can get to that window station (so you can't create a fake password box over the top to scrape passwords, for instance).
Without knowing why you think your service needs to interact with that desktop, it's difficult to advise further, but it might mean that your design is broken somehow.
Service isolation will probably prevent you doing this from a service.
Pre-vista Novell and the like would probably have used GINA, which was replaced in vista; http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/magazine/cc163489.aspx
The only way I know of would be to write your own msgina.dll.
It can get dicey during testing though. Any mistakes can mess up your OS so bad that a complete reinstall becomes necessary.
I am working on some Automation Project where one needs to perform some action related to display resolution.Change the Display resolution , Lock the Desktop and then Unlock Desktop again to check that resolution remained same.
I am able to perform LockWorkstation but unable to have any thing for Unlock Workstation.
Can any body help me regarding unlocking Display with help of C# and in Win 7 ?
I heard of GINA dll which can help ,but I dont know anything about it.Can this be used for Win7 and .NET 3.5?
Thanks
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I don't think that doing this is technically feasible. GINAs were deprecated after XP and the new way to provide custom authentication in Vista/Win7 is to use the ICredentialProvider
interface. Even if you get this working you'll still have to somehow send the the secure attention sequence, i.e. ctrl-alt-delete, to initiate the logon. Sending ctrl-alt-delete programmatically is itself something that is difficult to do and not really supported.
This sounds like a lot of work for some automation and probably won't have much ROI. Can you test this by logging the user off completely and then logging back in? If so, then you could set your test machine to auto-logon the user. When you log-off it will shut down the session and then promptly log the user back in and you could check if the resolution is what you expect.