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Can help with #3.
Here's a sample:
<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application
xmlns:mx="http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml"
initialize="initApp()">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import
mx.controls.ComboBox;
private function
initApp():Void
{
var color_str:String =
color_cb.selectedItem.toString();
colorMe_box.setStyle("backgroundColor",
color_str);
}
private function
setColor(event:Object):Void
{
var cb:ComboBox =
ComboBox(event.target);
var color_str:String =
cb.selectedItem.toString();
colorMe_box.setStyle("backgroundColor",
color_str);
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:FormItem
label="Colors:">
<mx:ComboBox
id="color_cb"
change="setColor(event)">
<mx:dataProvider>
<mx:Array>
<mx:String>0x000000</mx:String>
<mx:String>0x660000</mx:String>
<mx:String>0x000066</mx:String>
</mx:Array>
</mx:dataProvider>
</mx:ComboBox>
</mx:FormItem>
<mx:Box
id="colorMe_box"
borderStyle="solid"
width="100"
height="100"/>
</mx:Application>
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Having hard time understanding what
features are available to whom when and how
I've used Axis on other projects, but I'm not sure how this
interaction as a RemoteObject would look in the context of Flex 2.0 . Do
you know of a working example of this somewhere? I'm not sure what I would
code on the Flex side and I'm not sure what I'd need to do on the server side to
make it compatible and synchronize.
I'm also wondering whether
everything is available to support developing this demo for as long as it takes
or if I will at some point have to buy a license for one thing or another to
continue development. I also need to know how to explain the production
operational costs to a potential investor. Potentially this is an
application run by large companies on their own servers for many subscribers.
And from a technical viewpoint, I'm still wondering how to implement
these arbitrary small shapes (such as states on a map) that need to change to
one of a number of colors. I'd probably be able to answer that by myself
if I were a Flash developer, but my Flash experience is limited to having run
through the examples of a much earlier version of Flash.
I know that's a
lot of questions.
Thanks,
Bruce
On 12/27/05, Matt
Chotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
wrote:
I
think you'll find 1.5 a more stable development experience in the
next
month though of course 2.0 offers a lot of stuff. For
RemoteObject in
2.0 for now you do need the 2.0 CF adapter, but as many
folks will be
happy to point out you could also just expose your Java
objects via a
WebService using Apache Axis instead (this should be done in
the 2.0
samples maybe but is definitely in 1.5 for reference). The
Flex 2 alpha
will hint at functionality (like RemoteObject) that may not
actually be
functional in your configuration.
Matt
-----Original
Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:
[email protected]] On
Behalf Of JesterXL
Sent: Tuesday,
December 27, 2005 4:39 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [flexcoders]
Having hard time understanding what features
are available to whom when and
how
I cannot answer all of your questions, but here are my
suggestions.
- assuming on Windows, download Apache Tomcat
- download
Flex 1.5 demo
- install Flex 1.5 demo with just FlexBuilder 1.5
- copy
and paste the flex.war & samples.war files into Tomcat's webapps
directory
Hit the samples page to ensure all is well. On
mine, it's:
http://localhost:8080/samples/
I've yet to get Flex 2
to work with Remoting + AMFPHP. Considering AMF
(the
binary
format used to send serialized class bits across the wire) is
undergoing
big changes, OpenAMF (Java) and AMFPHP (PHP) don't really
work
yet.
I've heard of some people getting Remoting to work with the
CFAdapter,
but I
don't use CF ( I do at work, but I don't code
it). Some have reported
success with the
WebService/HTTPService.
Me? I use Flex 1.5 every day and it works
great. At night, I moonlight
in
Flex 2, but she's still alpha, so
we have a ways to go.
The bad news is, for those client developers
(like me) who only care
about
the client, Flex 1.5 has the server
requirement. However, you can still
snag SWF's off of the server
once compiled as well as to show clients of
what's possible. Good
news, she works great, HTTPService (GET/POST)
works,
WebService works,
and RemoteObject works with AMFPHP, OpenAMF, and
ColdFusion.
Hope
that helps some. Feel free to post more questions.
----- Original
Message -----
From: "BCichowlas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December
27, 2005 4:22 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Having hard time understanding what
features are
available to whom when and how
Hi!
I'm an
independent developer trying to put together an RIA demo for
potential
investors in a proposed enterprise. This proposed
enterprise is not a
software company but would make heavy use of an
RIA application.
My
most reasonable choices seem to be Flex, Laszlo or Ajax (in its
many
variations). I spent the last week with the Iteration Two Flex
book,
downloading what is available freely to developers from
the
Macromedia/Adobe site.
As part of my demo, I need to be able to
change the color of irregular
small shapes. The shapes themselves are
known in advance and don't
change. For the sake of discussion, it is
as if I had an outline of
New England, divided into the six New England
states and I wanted to
be able to choose one of eight colors for each of
the states based on
user interaction.
After looking at the
complexities of Ajax, Flex seemed like an ideal
choice. Since I
develop under Eclipse and since the 2.0 alpha seemed
like a generally
usable version, it was my first choice. However, the
examples in the
Iteration Two book seem to be written for 1.0 or 1.5,
and I spent quite a
while trying to run them under 2.0 with varying
degrees of
success.
My database needs for this demo application are modest, but I
did want
to be able to use RemoteObject. I was never able to get
anything
using RemoteObject to operate successfully. I was developing
under
Eclipse and using the "Run Flex application" to try to run
my
application. I'm not sure exactly what runtime environment
this
results in, but I had been successful at getting some small
forms
running successfully and trading string messages with the
server.
Is RemoteObject supposed to be possible using only the 2.0
alpha
materials? If not, what do I need? The Cold Fusion
server
extensions? The Enterprise version? Is what I need
available now?
Does it cost money just to use for a demo? Are there
some examples of
using a RemoteObject under 2.0 that I could try under
Eclipse? Should
I be using 1.5 instead?
I am wondering if my
expectations of the 2.0 alpha are inappropriate
for programming a demo now
and in January 2006. I'm not a Cold Fusion
user and have only a
rudimentary understanding of its operation. I'm
now thinking that I
should use Ajax or possibly Laszlo, but would
listen carefully to any
argument that Flex is the right
choice.
Thanks,
Bruce
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