[flexcoders] application.enabled = false when application is communicating with server

I would like to have the application.enabled set to false anytime the cursur changes to stop watch (communication with backend server) and have the application.enabled set to true when the cursor reverts to default. How would I do this? Is there an easy way to set this up? I know I could

[flexcoders] Compiling and debugging against a remote Coldfusion server

I have hired someone to work on a Flex application. It uses remoteObject to connect to ColdFusion. The gentleman I hired does not know how to set up a local environment and it seems it ought to be easy to set up the remote server to work. I've tried everything I can think of (granted it is a