OK, so I understand that Flex web service calls are asynchronous, and I understand the many cases where this makes sense since you don't have to hold up the UI experience while waiting for a web service or remote procedure to return a result.
However, I keep running into instances where this makes my life hell. One example is the submission of an order on a Flex site I have. Because of the way the order is handled, it is split into multiple (smaller) orders and then each order is submitted/saved via a web service call. This means that one order could have 10+ web service calls. I have a "Print Receipt" button which then uses the saved order data to produce a PDF receipt. The problem is, if a user clicks "Print Receipt" before all the save order web services have finished, then they only get a partial receipt. There's also not an easy way to determine if all the web service calls are finished, so I can't disable/enable the button based on that. Is there any easy way to implement synchronous web service calls in Flex? Man, if I had the option of specifying with a property whether or not a web service should be synchronous or asynchronous, it would make my life *so* much easier!
