Re: Advice needed on developing app for linux

From: Christopher Browne (cbbrowne_at_acm.org)
Date: 08/12/04 

Date: 12 Aug 2004 12:31:43 GMT

After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, "Elp" <rockfamily@hotmail.com> belched out:
> Hi,
>
> We have developed a Windows desktop application and are now thinking
> of doing the same for linux.
>
> Our application relies heavily on ActiveX controls in order to
> display within a single application Flash files, Web pages, videos
> files and streams, remote deskop control... We have choosen the
> ActiveX way to be able to provide all the features we needed in our
> application without having to reinvent the wheel.
>
> However, given my little knowledge about development frameworks and
> developer tools for Linux, i wonder if this would be possible to
> achieve under Linux. Do you know of any way to achieve that under
> this OS? Or is porting our application as it is now under Linux
> totally hopeless at the moment ? Any comment, link or book advice
> would be higly appreciated.

There is no exact equivalent to "ActiveX" on Linux, indeed, that
particular facility is regarded as something of a pariah due to it
being something of a "single stop to shop for security faults."

If your present goal is to develop Flash-based applications, then
reality is that the only interest you can have in deploying them on
Linux is the same kind of abstract interest one might have when they
say "If only there was World Peace" or "Wouldn't it be nice if we
could somehow end hunger?"

By having chosen a set of technology that weds you intimately to both
Microsoft and Macromedia at the same time, well, you've clearly made
your bed. Getting out of it, to options with the potential to be more
interoperable, will be a change that mandates a MAJOR rearchitecting
of your systems. 

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