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Asked: 2026-05-11T12:39:54+00:00

Is it possible to embed flash in a mono Application? Preferably would be similar

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Is it possible to embed flash in a mono Application?

Preferably would be similar to the way it can be embedded as an ActiveX control in .Net, but anything where somehow the flash commands could bubble up to the Mono application would be fine.

I had assumed that it would be possible to use the web browser to see flash, however I cannot determine how to install the flash plug-in into the WebBrowser control, as I have installed the Flash plug-in via RPM and flash isn’t installed in the Mono.Mozilla.WebBrowser control.

I should probably add that the application will be running on Linux…

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  1. You can host the Flash plugin natively using the NPAPI, however it is a lot of work and a lot of code. Here is the Gecko Plugin API Reference. Basically you have to implement the entire Netscape half of the API that Flash expects. You can look at the Webkit source code to see how to handle most of it.

    This is not a simple task, there are lots of undocumented quirks and lots of gotchas along the way. Plan for at least a month or two of work if you go down this path. It is possible, however, as there is the Webkit existence proof.

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