I'm only just getting started with Farcry. Would you by any chance be
able to include a sample of how the webskin might work that way? If I
modify the webskin to output just the XML, wouldn't I just get XML
when I try to view the page, rather than the desired flash content?

On Oct 6, 6:36 pm, "Blair McKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> An alternative is to simply change all the webskins so that they output XML
> instead of HTML. Then the flash app would access the data exactly the same
> way as a user looking at a normal website: by opening
> /index.cfm?objectid=xxx, where the objectid specifies the data/content item.
>
> Blair
>
> On 10/6/07, nickel4242 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > You would need to set up proxy cfcs to access your custom types and
> > the built in types throught application scope.  So dmHTML_proxy.cfc
> > should access application.types.dmHTML directly in order to interact
> > with it.  I would put these somewhere under the www folder.  Perhaps
> > in a folder called remote or cfcs or something.
>
> > The functions in these cfcs should be set to access="remote" and
> > should return the same XML as your JSP pages are calling now.  You
> > should be able to reuse a lot of your Flash content.
>
> > Navigation nodes are a content type just like dmHTML, and any of your
> > custom types.  If you look at the genericNav custom tag you can see
> > how it gets them from the DB.  You will want to do something similar
> > and either pass it via Flash Remoting or XML to your Flex/Flash stuff.
>
> > Make sure when you author the proxy cfcs that you include some kind of
> > authentication so that you know your Flash stuff is calling your
> > remote methods.
>
> > On Oct 5, 2:06 pm, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I've heard this is a fairly common occurance, but can't find any
> > > sample code on how it would be done. I'm wanting to have FarCry drive
> > > an all-flash site. Currently, our sites are in JSP, and we're getting
> > > the XML data into flash through HTTP calls. Pretty straight forward.
> > > How would I do the same within the Farcry framework, such that Farcry
> > > would build the navigation and content all dynamically?
>
> > > Is there a sample Flash/Flex project perhaps that I could look at as
> > > an example of how it would be done? Thanks.
>
> > > Nick


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