Heh,
To be perfectly honest Dave & others, I was a bit mental when that was
posted (over a week ago!!!)
not even thinking straight, dreadfully embarrased, sorry.
But, having said that, some sort of CF functionality to write configs or
variables to Flash *before* the movie is served (ie server-side) would be
very nice, which I think is what I was trying to get at in my own
ill-communicated way.
It seems a little backwards to write data to variables, serve the movie to
the client, only for it to then have to make another trip to the server
(unless the variables are stored in a JS script in the calling HTML) to grab
those very variables.
This is especially true when you're trying to serve large amounts of text to
a Flash movie from a dynamic source.
I admit that I have no clue whatsoever to the low level workings of flash; I
don't even know if that's possible architectually speaking, so perhaps some
Flash dude (hoping they're starting to signup to this list) or MM
spokesperson can educate me.
Although maybe I'm off on another ill-thought out brainstorm....
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 23 May 2001 14:41
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: "Harpoon" Release is Final & Available
>
>
> > I don't agree that they wouldn't benefit from merging, or
> > ActionScript gaining some core CFML functionality.
>
> Given that ActionScript (being essentially a variation on
> JavaScript) relies
> on a Flash-specific object model with objects such as movie
> clips, etc, what
> exactly would it mean to merge ActionScript and CFML (which
> is a server-side
> language used for generating text output - no objects to
> speak of)? What
> would a combination of these two very different languages
> look like? What
> kind of CFML functionality would you like to see in
> ActionScript, and how
> would you use it?
>
> Note that this isn't intended to start a "slanging match",
> whatever that is.
> I'm genuinely curious. The two languages are so directly
> opposed in their
> differences (or at least that's how it seems to me) that I
> literally can't
> imagine why you'd want to merge them, or what that merger
> would look like.
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> http://www.figleaf.com/
> voice: (202) 797-5496
> fax: (202) 797-5444
>
>
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