also the MM site has a few good tuts, you just gotta know where to find them
 http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/data_integration.html

 or toms site
 http://www.flash-remoting.com

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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



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