c# flash and velleman k8055

A while ago I when I was working for the faculty Communication And Multimedia Design in Breda, the Netherlands (my hometown), I built an Xtra for Director that used the DLL that controlled the Velleman K8055 Interface Board. Although I had never programmed C++ before I managed to build the xtra using a toolkit called XtraBuilder. I didn’t really like the solution because it exposed all the methods in Director as Global functions, instead of instance methods. But hey.. it worked and the students were now able to control the interface using Lingo.

Today I decided to try and solve the whole thing in Flash. So I dug up a c# external interface example (http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/flashexternalapi.asp) and had a look at the DLL-api again.
I got the basics down now.I just need a small interval routine to read in the values from the interface board and then I can start on designing some fun interface.. I’ll post the source when I’ve done something worth showing.