Why don't you have coldfusion make a wddx packet and send ti to your flash
app, then have flash take the wddx packet and display your variables? This
way you can seperate all your actions very nicely and have all your dsp_##
files as the flash front end, and have your actions send and recieve XML
packets between Flash and CF. There is a basic turtorial of this at secret
agents, in the online training. When I have some more time I will try to
post up a small Flas/XML/CF app, so you all can see it, and attack it on
your own, and decide if it is for you.
Donald R. Pavlik
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Software Engineer
Inovation LLC.
www.inovation.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Strange Tactics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 6:02 PM
To: Fusebox
Subject: Flash and fusebox
Hey people,
I am having some problems getting the results I want. First off I am
sure
I am going the long way around. What I am doing is this, I am loading
variables into flash and displaying them in a textbox with dynamic text and
html enabled. Basically I am having coldfusion grab the data from the db and
format it (roughly, only some html 1.0 tags work). The thing is that I need
that text string to be contained in a single variable so that flash can grab
it and display it. So, I am using cfhttp to access the template and bring it
all back to flash in one variable. Like so...
This file.........
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<CFHTTP URL="http://216.232.243.211/cflash/circuits/news/dspNewsView.cfm"
METHOD="get"
RESOLVEURL="Yes">
</CFHTTP>
<cfset news = #CFHTTP.FileContent#>
<cf_StripWhitespace>
<cfoutput>&news=#news#&status=1</cfoutput>
</cf_StripWhitespace>
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grabs this file...
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<CFQUERY NAME="viewNewsItems" DATASOURCE="#request.myDSN#">
SELECT newsdate, newsheadline, newsbody
FROM news
order by newsdate DESC
</CFQUERY>
<CFOUTPUT QUERY= "viewNewsItems" group="newsDate">
<CFSET newsdate = #newsDate#>
<br>
<font color="##FFCC00"><b>#dateFormat(CreateODBCdate(newsDate), "mmmm d,
yyyy")#</b></font>
<br><br>
<CFOUTPUT>
<font color="##999999"><b>#newsHeadline#</b></font>
<br>
#ParagraphFormat("#newsBody#")#
<br><br>
</cfoutput>
</CFOUTPUT>
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and then Flash will display it all nice and pretty in the dynamic text box.
The first thing you'll notice is that this violates fusebox as I have the
query in the dsp file. I couldn't get it to work otherwise while using
<cfhttp>. What I would like to do is turf the <cfhttp> and just have the dsp
file somehow dropped into a container variable that I could dump into flash.
This would allow me to conform to fusebox standards as well as lose the
overhead that using <cfhttp> incurrs.
Any thoughts or viewpoints on how you would accomplish this? I need fresh
ideas, this one sucks :)
Shane Johnson
www.strangetactics.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Coldfusion developer
Fusebox compliant (XFB)
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