Thank you Dmitri. I just looked into XMLSocket. Looks like that would work great to test connection to host.
In my scenario, the site, spacecityaug.com, would load just fine (host/web server ok), but if the remoteObject connection fails and/or http://www.spacecityaug.com/Flex2gateway connection fails, that's a different ball game. You get the spinning clock until the remoteObject fault event fires. (could be a long time if ColdFusion or SQL Server is bogged down for any reason). I may not have asked the right question. It might be more specific to remoteObject failure at the instance the http://www.spacecityaug.com/Flex2gateway connection is attempted, but before ColdFusion has a chance to return the data. maybe setting the RO.requestTimeout to a low number is what I need. I'll try this timeout. But, it was very cool to learn about XMLSocket. Thanks, Don --- In [email protected], "Dmitri Girski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Don, > > Probably you can use XMLSocket. You connect it to your server and when > connection breaks for any reason, XMSocket dispatches IOError event. > > Cheers, > Dmitri. > > > --- In [email protected], "Don Kerr" <fusionpage@> wrote: > > > > Can anyone point me to examples of how to alert the user if/when > > connection to server is lost in a Flex app? So that they don't watch > > the spinning clock and wait for the fault...then send in hundreds of > > support requests:)? > > > > If the server is down or ColdFusion Flex Gateway is hung, I want to > > alert the user in a friendly way. > > > > I have the same issue with my AIR apps. Additionally with AIR, in > > cases where the user is outside the NASA firewall and can't connect to > > flex gateway. > > > > Maybe there is some Actionscript I could use in both my Flex and Air > apps? > > > > Or do I simply have to shorten the timeout period on the RemoteObject > > and use a event:faultEvent to popup up a custom alert? > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Thanks, > > Don > > >
