Yes, it does get very confusing very quickly. For the beginner, it's tough to tell where to begin even. For Flash MX there's the AS1 remoting components. For MX04 there are both AS1 and AS2 versions (and if you choose to work with the AS2 version, you have to download and install 2 different things). And we haven't even started using the stuff yet. So I hear ya Mike!
So I see you're using MX04. I take it you're using CF 6.1 or CF 7? Which remoting components have you installed (if any)? chris ______________________ Chris Kief Mindflood, Inc. www.mindflood.com 714.557.2488 x211 On 2/18/05 7:26 AM, "Eric Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amen. > > ________________________________ > > From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Fri 2/18/2005 6:35 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever > > > > I confess, I am still totally flumoxed by flash remoting. I have done > a lot of things with CFCs, and I understand the ColdFusion side of it, > but when it comes to the flash side of things, I can never find any > resource that can lead me to getting even the most simple of things to > work. > > For example .. I went to EasyCFM tonight to follow a beginners Flash > Remoting tutorial, having decided that I ought to put in whatever > effort was required to get my mind around it. My heart sank when > the first instruction related to the flash end of it went awry. "From > the File menu, choose New from Template, and go down to web" it says. > Nope. Not on my FlashMX2004Professional. No such menu item. > > I knew immediately that this was a tutorial written for another > version of Flash, and yet again nothing on my flash version would > correlate with the tutorial. > > And so it went on - "The first thing we do is include the necessary > links to external Actionscript files that enable Flash Remoting." > but no clue given about including .. WHERE? > > This has been teh case with all the tutorials I've tried to follow in > the past, and the three books I have, bear little relationship to the > version I have - a fully registered FlashMX2004Professional. > > Does anyone know of a beginners tutorial related to THIS version of > flash? There are so many differences between one version and another > - nothing seems to be in the same place twice when I look. I've > learned from experience that you can enter stuff into flash but unless > you have previously clicked the right frame and the right layer within > the frame, nothing works. So for a tutorial to be any use to > beginners, it has to give that information too. Simply saying > "include the necessary links" is quite useless to a beginner (well > this beginner anyway). > > I once tried to get help through the flash lists, but they did the > same thing. They tried their hardest to be helpful, but because they > all know what to do, they forget to include the most basic information > that isnt obvious to people like me who havent even got the simplest > most elementary flash things to work. > > Is it a vain hope that there is a really basic beginners tutorial for > flashMX2004Professional 7.2? > > Is it too much to ask that tutorial writers and book authors state > what versions of things they're writing with? > > -- > Cheers > Mike Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > AFP Webworks > http://afpwebworks.com > ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:195386 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
