RE: [flexcoders] Ok, now a problem with creating a new CF Remoting Project
This is a known issue with the flex builder. I was just at CFUnited, and the adobe folks knew that there was a problem with the plugin / builder if you are not using the built in server. The workaround they gave me was to create a standard flex project then right click on the project and go to compiler properties, then add -locale en_US -services C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\WEB-INF\flex\flex-enterprise-services.xml. They told me this is the only difference between the default flex project and a coldfusion remoting project. HTH, Rich Kroll Application Developer From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nick Collins Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 2:27 PM To: flexcoders Subject: [flexcoders] Ok, now a problem with creating a new CF Remoting Project Trying to create a new Flex Project using the Coldfusion Flash Remoting Service. First problem is it does not pull the server address from the RDS settings as I would expect. It keeps trying to access the CF standalone server on port 8500, which I do not use. On my development machine I have CF installed connected to IIS. So I uncheck the use local coldfusion server, since it's not actually accessing my local coldfusion server correctly, and changed the root URL to just be http://localhost/ as should be correct. However, it won't validate the location of C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot, which is where I have coldfusion installed and where the WEB-INF/flex folder resides. However, it tells me it's an invalid server root and won't let me procede. When I use the Coldfusion CRUD Application Wizard things work flawlessly so I know all is good with my server configuration. Anyone know what might be the cause of the issue? Thanks! Nick __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
RE: [flexcoders] app startup / load times
Hank, One thing you have to keep in mind is that Flex 2.0 is tailored to web *applications* instead of to web sites. When a user starts up a typical application, a 8-10 second delay prior to the application to start up is not an unusually long delay for startup. Most Flex apps that I've seen to date are starting up in the 3-5 second range, which I believe is completely acceptable. I'm not saying that people will not use flex to create websites, but I think that a lot of the power that is offered by the platform will not be used, and will potentially bloat the file size of the site (I'm not positive if the flex platform will dynamically remove unused classes, someone have input?). HTH, Rich Kroll Application Developer From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hank williams Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 10:37 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] app startup / load times For the first time since I started playing with flex (a couple of weeks) I checked out the size of my app, which is currently 477k. My app isnt that big, so I presume most of that is just the size of the framework. I am just wondering what do people think about that in terms of user start up time. For a user with a 500kbps connection that is about 8 seconds before the app is loaded. Are people doing loaders to get things started? is there an accepted strategy for how to deal with this? There was another thread recently about how people shouldnt use flex for websites and one person provided aesthetic reasons. In my mind, if there is a reason (and I am not arguing that there is) but if there is a reason not to use it for websites it would be the file size. 10 seconds seems like a long time to make someone wait before they see something. On the other hand perhaps I am underestimating the average connection speed. Anyway, like I said I would just like to get peoples thoughts on this issue. Hank -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [flexcoders] app startup / load times
Hank, Think of what you are trying to accomplish, and how each fits into your overall business. It seems to me as though you are trying to merge your application with the more marketing related website that sells it. If you look at these two things as distinct entities, it makes much more sense to separate these into separate files with their own source code, progress bars, (potentially) domains, etc. This would reduce the load time for users just coming to check out your software, and have the additional benefit of keeping your source for the app completely separate from the code you use to sell it. HTH, Rich From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hank williams Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 9:01 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] app startup / load times On 7/3/06, Richard Kroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hank, One thing you have to keep in mind is that Flex 2.0 is tailored to web *applications* instead of to web sites. This is the rub. I am doing an application, but I am debating as to whether to put the intro stuff into a separate flash app so that the website part of my stuff can open more quickly. Most applications still need the website-ish stuff to tell the user why they should care and what the app is. Basically I am wondering whether I really need to go through that extra effort of making a separate thing in order to improve startup performance. I *really* dont want to. I am lazy. And flex would allow me to do that intro so much easier. But if the startup time is really annoying to people I dont want to loose potential users because the startup was too slow. Now that flex is mainstream, I am sure lots of people are dealing with or thinking about similar issues so I just wanted to get peoples thoughts. I'm really hoping people will convince me not to worry about it, but I am open to being convinced that I need to do a two stage site. When a user starts up a typical application, a 8-10 second delay prior to the application to start up is not an unusually long delay for startup. Most Flex apps that I've seen to date are starting up in the 3-5 second range, which I believe is completely acceptable. I agree that 3-5 seconds is totally ok. I have no idea what the real world experience will be for most people and 8-10 seconds was just a guess based on file size and guesses about the low end of average connection speeds. Regards Hank Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [flexcoders] RDS Problem
Just had this problem and the solution is rather easy: Head to preferences in Eclipse / Flex2 Builder and select RDS Configuation. Then select the Currently Configured RDS Server and ensure the hostname / port is correct as well as the RDS password is set. My current config that works for me is: Host Name: 127.0.0.1 Port: 80 (8500 if you are using the dev edition with no other web server) Once I set this up I could access all the RDS featuers. HTH, Rich From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Smith Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 10:29 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] RDS Problem I'm getting and error when attempting to configure RDS in Flex 2 unable to connect to RDS Server. I have CFMX7 with the latest june 28 update running on win 2003 and iis 6, flex data services with integrated jrun (june 28). RDS works fine for dreamweaver 8 with the same settings I'm trying in flex. __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
