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How to continue running Flash applications

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MTKor
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How to continue running Flash applications

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Hello,

I am working an a project involving some internal applications based on Adobe Flash. The idea of the project is to build a special Windows browser with Delphi, using CEF4Delphi as the basis, that would allow continued usage of these applications after standard browsers stop supporting Flash early 2021.

The initial idea was to use Adobe Flash Player in the project, but due to uncertainty regarding the licensing terms of Adobe Flash Player we would like to explore other possible solutions.

We are currently evaluating Lightspark as an alternative and would like to know if it could be used in conjunction with CEF4Delphi instead of Adobe Flash Player binaries?

More information on Lightspark:
https://github.com/lightspark/lightspark/releases

I would also like to ask if anyone is aware of alternative solutions to this scenario ?

I would appreciate a lot your assistance in this matter.
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Re: How to continue running Flash applications

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Hi,

CEF4Delphi is only a wrapper of the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) which includes Chromium.

I'm not sure Chromium and CEF will keep the API features needed to load the Flash plugin after it's deprecated in Jan 2021.
Other CEF wrapper maintainers say that they will be removed :
https://magpcss.org/ceforum/viewtopic.p ... 222#p47222

In addition to that, Lightspark seems to have unresolved issues in Chromium :
https://github.com/lightspark/lightspark/issues/298
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