Mike, It's really not as hard as you think! The chattyfig list really is more ppl using php with amfphp then actual MM remoting which is really different. Once you get it down, man its amazing what you can do! not to mention fast as hell!
I agree with Dave Watts, get the book "flash mx prfoessional 2004 for server geeks", friggin great book! I got my copy for free thru my local cfug, I just have to write a book report on it and send to publisher. communitymx.com has a few articles on it as well. I'd suggest the one i help Paul Newman do Case Study: Using the New Flash Remoting Classes the result can be seen here http://www.jamwerx.com/authors/authors.html pretty simple app, took me about 45 mintutes to do, then i gave it to paul and he switched the remoting classes to the newer version 2 ones. It's fairly simple, make a cfc that gets the cmx authors and populates a listbox and on click shows their info in a seperate clip and has an email systen via remoting and a cfc as well. Least will get you going. ---------------------------------------- From: Mike Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 7:40 AM To: CF-Talk <[email protected]> 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:4:195432 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
