Remy BERAUD says:

Nice !

I don’t know if it has been already wrote somewhere, but I noticed that the FlashPlayer 8 ActiveX Control has new methods (maybe some already
exists on the previous flash player, but not ‘CallFunction’).
- EnforceLocalSecurity()
- Profile (property Read/Write) : Boolean
- ProfileAddress (property read/Write) : String
- ProfilePort (property Read/Write) : Long
- CallFunction ([in] String request) : String
- SetReturnValue([in] String returnValue);

And there’s also a new event :
FlashCall([in] String request, [out] String response);

I still don’t check those methods, just look at the ActiveX Interface, but I
suppose ‘CallFunction’ does what it is supposed to do (send an request and get a response synchronously – I hope so – ), and the ‘FlashCall’ event (maybe with the help of SetReturnValue in the ‘FlashCall’ event callback) could be used to handle synchronous events from the FlashPlayer.

Such as (In VBScript, sorry)

Sub oFlashPlayer_FlashCall(request, response)
if request=”blah blah…” then
response = “myReturnValue” ‘ Or maybe SetReturnValue(“myReturnValue”)
end if
End Sub

Franto says:

Blur filter example:
http://www.franto.com/blog2/maelstrom-filters-blurfilter