Technologies similar to Flash and Silverlight for Desktop apps
- by M.A. Hanin
Long story short: we use Flash as a partial GUI in our .NET desktop applications.
Normally, this means that the Flash player control sits in some WinForm, playing a movie file. Changes in the real world are presented in the movie (e.g., a light-bulb turned on in the real world? a matching one will light up inside the Flash movie), and interaction with the instances in the movie will affect the real world (clicked the light-bulb? the light bulb in the real world will turn on).
My question is: which technologies / products can offer me similar capabilities?
Of course, I'm looking for something that can compete with Flash / Silverlight: animations, object-oriented scripting and design, powerful tools allowing the artists to design symbols conveniently, etc... static image objects won't cut it