Kevin, As Mike mentioned - altering the flex engine would result in 2 separate sets of code, 1 for CF and one for regular Flex. It's not a speed issue. It's a maintenance and restriction issue. Altering the flex compiler would affect maintenance (hotfixes, updates etc) exponentially. The restrictions are important to protect MM's investment in Flex (which is overpriced in my view - but still valuable). They want folks to use CF Form as a "rich man's HTML form", not a "poor man's Flex". However, it's demonstrated time and time again that you cannot dictate to people how to use a given tool.
There's tremendous pent up demand for "something like" flash forms (not enough demand to justify flex, but still :) - and flash forms shows great promise. It's tantalizingly close to what you can do with flex - but not close enough to be really useful. Folks like us just backtrack and use a pure flash UI with remoting and side step the whole issue. -Mark -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Aebig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 12:13 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: What were they thinking? What I don't understand is why you don't use the compiler? If it's a speed issue, why not just have it output a SWF to the same dir and replace the generation code with the proper script to load the file? These could be ported to full RIA's with Flashes loading capabilities quite easily than, instead of having to recreate the same forms (or steal them though outside means which just feels wrong...) Cheers, Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Mike Nimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: August 30, 2005 10:36 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: What were they thinking? I just posted on Mark's blog, that yes as some of you guessed, we do perform a regex check against the Actionscript to check for illegal usage of Actionscript, instead of using the compiler. This is why we can't tell the difference between comments, strings, or Actionscript. I know this is a pain, and we have tried to document this as much as possible so you don't go banging your head against the wall. But you need to remember Flash forms are designed to replace static boring html forms, not to build custom RIA Applications. I know there is a fine line that does overlap sometimes. Honestly though if you're tweaking your forms so much that these keywords are becoming an issue. You might want to seriously look at Flex, it is a sweet tool. ---nimer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:216816 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
