Mike, A useful first tutorial to Flash Remoting is Ben Forta's article in CFDJ titled, "Data Entry Reformed:
http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/article.cfm?id=528 For something a little more advanced our CFUG had Craig Boyles, one of the developers at MetaSurge, show us how to create a basic add-edit-delete example using Flash remoting. http://www.coldfusion.org/downloads/MMCFUG_FlashWebService.zip It's still not easy or intuitive for a CF'er to use Flash but it is do-able. Rick Mason On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 23:35:13 +1100, Mike Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:195425 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=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
