I read somewhere ages ago that you can embed and interact with Flash objects from within VB6 applications. Unfortunatley I cannot find anything useful on the web about doing this.

Does anyone here know anything about it ? Or does anyone know anything about writing Flash objects that can be interfaced to / driven from an external application ?

it may be possible to code a browser into vb6 (certantly know that parts dooable with .net) but ive not got anymore info further than that in so much as if either support extentions.

id look at the browser route and see if it supports using active x extentions
(infact you may hit lucky and find you just have to reference the active x controls for flash objects directly)

have a look on adobes macromedia site to see if they list any ocxs


ive not seen anything like that done, any reason why your doing it?

www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flash_vb.pdf

Have a spy at that ^^

IIRC you interact with it with ActionScript or something like that.

Thats a great PDF cheers BigSoy

Youre also right that you can interact with the Flash object through ActionScript and also the Shockwave object event model.

Unfortunatley its all a little bit too resource hungry for what I wanted to attempt to do