After attempting to control the Augmented Reality content using additional AR markers to no success I decided to connect the Flash content to Max/MSP using the Flash Server object that enables communication between both softwares.
The flash server available for download from http://www.nullmedium.de/dev/flashserver/ enables such communication. However this particular version of flash server is scripted in ActionScript 2.0 and my entire project is AS 3.0. fortunately however a former iDat student Alex Ryley re wrote the application and converted into AS3 and made it available for use. Credit goes to Alex Ryley for the server object in AS3 and is available here: http://www.alexryley.net/2009/01/maxmsp-flashserver/
Once I had the As3 version of the flash server I set about creating a Max/MSP patch that would connect to Flash and allow communication between the two. Originally I had the idea of potentially using the voice controlled system as featured previously to change images sets and manipulate sizes, but again even with specific one word commands, it proved to be too unreliable and if used in a busy noisy area would prove troublesome. I needed to come up with a new method to physically control the content from within the book with reliability and ease
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