Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-19 Thread dave
drunk coders type like me, hu From: Will Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 11:49 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever > whoo hoo!!! > now you got the bug :) > HEll, I&#

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Will Tomlinson
> whoo hoo!!! > now you got the bug :) > HEll, I'm dowloadin thus sumbitch now! Woo! ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hou

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread dave
: Mike Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 9:47 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever This just shows how easy it is to impress me I just got the sample app that Dave sent to me GOING!!! IT's bloody well working!

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Mike Kear
This just shows how easy it is to impress me I just got the sample app that Dave sent to me GOING!!! IT's bloody well working!!! For the first time in more than three years, I have a remoting app working on my system. Not MY app, mind you - that is still a ways off, but

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread dave
8, 2005 9:00 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever Well at last something worked. I downloaded Dave's zip file again and it opened. I double clicked the flash remoting components and they seemed to install ok. For such a simple thing I feel an amazing sense

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread dave
dang that sounds like my luck with windows, frusterating isnt it? i just downloaded it from my link and its fine on this end From: Mike Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 7:41 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Flash Remoting rema

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread dave
windows update does that too me (tg) From: Mike Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 7:37 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever Why would one person be able to get the components and another not?

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Mike Kear
Well at last something worked. I downloaded Dave's zip file again and it opened. I double clicked the flash remoting components and they seemed to install ok. For such a simple thing I feel an amazing sense of triumph. At last I have forced that *(&[EMAIL PROTECTED] FLASH to do something I want

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Mike Kear
Ok that figures. Everything else in this project fails, so why not this. Dave's zip file is not valid and wont open. On this go-round, I've spent nine hours trying to get to learn Flash Remoting and havent so much as got started. I'll try downloading it again. (sigh) Cheers Mike Kear Wind

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Mike Kear
Thanks Dave, I've downloaded the zip file from your site. Now to try to install the little buggers. Cheers Mike Kear On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:27:09 -0500, dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > works 4 me on firefox > im uploading it now for you > i gotta run to store but in a few try www.jamwerx.co

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Mike Kear
Why would one person be able to get the components and another not? It's definitely giving me "page not found" every time I click on any of the links leading to the actual .EXE file. French, German, AS2, AS1, doesnt matter - they all come up "page not found". Or is there a higher being just try

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread dave
Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever No, it says Page Cannot be Found! I have tried it in three browsers, on two different machines. I've entered the URL by clicking on the link in your post, by cutting and pasting into the address bar, and by following links from the home page at macromed

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Mike Kear
No, it says Page Cannot be Found! I have tried it in three browsers, on two different machines. I've entered the URL by clicking on the link in your post, by cutting and pasting into the address bar, and by following links from the home page at macromedia.com. In the latter case, I get to the p

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread dave
5 6:45 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever Situation normal. Same as any other time I've tried to learn how to do this flash remoting. Something really simple stops me. Dave sent me a tutorial to work on, and I figured I'd better make sure I have the

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Mike Kear
Situation normal. Same as any other time I've tried to learn how to do this flash remoting. Something really simple stops me. Dave sent me a tutorial to work on, and I figured I'd better make sure I have the correct version of the flash remoting components. So I went to Macromedia's site, found

RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread dave
ompile and test From: "Rick Faircloth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 5:30 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever Yeah...I see *so* much potential for application design...it's jus

RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Rick Faircloth
king to a guy that's using CF 4.5! ;o) Rick -Original Message- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 5:16 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever i was just kiddin ;) i agree though a first its a bit rough but then yo

RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread dave
its a beautiful thing :) From: "Rick Faircloth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 5:07 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever No...(not at this point...), *but* neither do I hand-code all the HTML either... It just depends on

RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Rick Faircloth
To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever ok I see what you are looking for:) yes there are a few built-in ones go to INSERT > TIMELINE EFFECTS i have 3 paid mxp's I love from red giant http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/flash1.html and on the exchange there are

RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread dave
ame...like Swish... Rick -Original Message- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 4:29 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever It's just different, like learning a new editor, most ppl still think of it like it USED to be n

RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Rick Faircloth
y, February 18, 2005 4:29 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever It's just different, like learning a new editor, most ppl still think of it like it USED to be not how it now is. I mean come on, you all know I'm clueless and i can do it, so you should be ab

RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread dave
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 3:51 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever I feel your pain, too, Kevin. I looked into Flash when it first came out and found it very frustrating and time-consuming to use. And I do computer-based video producti

RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Rick Faircloth
ge- From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 3:24 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever Despite the thread title, I wasn't talking specifically about Remoting. I was just talking about the whole Flash thing. We do very few

RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread dave
From: "Kevin Graeme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 3:26 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever Despite the thread title, I wasn't talking specifically about Remoting. I was just talking about the whole Flash thing. We do

RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Kevin Graeme
ersion. -Kevin -Original Message- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 2:02 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever while that might be true it also isn't. Flash remoting is a lot simpler to use then pulling in xml or

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread dave
ours dont burst ;) From: Charlie Griefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 3:09 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:02:23 -0500, dave wrote: > while that might be true it also isn't. .and it's logic

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Charlie Griefer
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:02:23 -0500, dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > while that might be true it also isn't. and it's logic like that that causes the vein to bulge in my forehead. -- Charlie Griefer "...All the world shall be your enemy, Pri

RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread dave
tation from our cfug too but that was way over my head!! From: "Kevin Graeme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 2:54 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever I feel your pain Mike. I like to

RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Kevin Graeme
I feel your pain Mike. I like to buy books at the used bookstore but MM changes things enough with each version that what seems like it should be simple stuff becomes frustrating. -Kevin -Original Message- For example .. I went to EasyCFM tonight to follow a beginners Flash Remoting tuto

re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread dave
also the MM site has a few good tuts, you just gotta know where to find them http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/data_integration.html or toms site http://www.flash-remoting.com From: Mike Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 7

re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread dave
Mike, It's really not as hard as you think! The chattyfig list really is more ppl using php with amfphp then actual MM remoting which is really different. Once you get it down, man its amazing what you can do! not to mention fast as hell! I agree with Dave Watts, get the book "flash mx prfo

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Rick Mason
Mike, A useful first tutorial to Flash Remoting is Ben Forta's article in CFDJ titled, "Data Entry Reformed: http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/article.cfm?id=528 For something a little more advanced our CFUG had Craig Boyles, one of the developers at MetaSurge, show us how to create a basic add-

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Adrocknaphobia
Tom Muck's book is top notch. Flash remoting content aside, it was one of the best tech books I read last year. Also Fig Leaf's Advanced Actionscript course was excellent. -Adam On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:13:00 -0500, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I confess, I am still totally flumoxed

RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Dave Watts
> Yep...one of my partners said the ChattyFig lists have been down for a > couple of days :-( Yes, unfortunately we've been having a few problems with that server since it was upgraded. We're looking into it. I apologize for any inconvenience. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figle

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Yep...one of my partners said the ChattyFig lists have been down for a couple of days :-( Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.electricedgesystem

RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Adrian Lynch
TED] Sent: 18 February 2005 16:51 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever Hey Mike, I've had the best help wit the various ChattyFig (from FigLeaf Software). They have a newbie list and some more advanced lists. Everyone on there was always helpfuland they tende

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Hey Mike, I've had the best help wit the various ChattyFig (from FigLeaf Software). They have a newbie list and some more advanced lists. Everyone on there was always helpfuland they tended to get really basic which was nice ;-) and sorry for confusing you with Eric ;-) Cheers Bryan

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Mike Kear
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 03:34:50 +1100, Mike Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian, you put your finger on the problem precisely. I cant count > the number of times I've started off doing something in flash, only to > be stymied about half way through, scratching my head and saying to > myself ...

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Alex Sherwood
Mark A Kruger wrote: >I confess, I am still totally flumoxed by flash remoting. I have done >a lot of things with CFCs, and I understand the ColdFusion side of it, >but when it comes to the flash side of things, I can never find any >resource that can lead me to getting even the most simple of th

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Mike Kear
els and visual aids that is the hard part :) > > > > As for your include remoting files you need the following commands > > #include > > "netservices.as" and #include "netdebug.as" (that's from memory - so > > sombody > > correct me if I get the f

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Chris Kief
Yes, it does get very confusing very quickly. For the beginner, it's tough to tell where to begin even. For Flash MX there's the AS1 remoting components. For MX04 there are both AS1 and AS2 versions (and if you choose to work with the AS2 version, you have to download and install 2 different things

RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Dave Watts
> I confess, I am still totally flumoxed by flash remoting. I have done > a lot of things with CFCs, and I understand the ColdFusion side of it, > but when it comes to the flash side of things, I can never find any > resource that can lead me to getting even the most simple of things to > work. I

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Bryan Stevenson
" (that's from memory - so > sombody > correct me if I get the file names wrong). If you installed the remoting > components for flash from devnet they will already be in the includes > folder > for you so you don't need to worry ab

RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Eric Hoffman
Amen. From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 2/18/2005 6:35 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever I confess, I am still totally flumoxed by flash remoting. I have done a lot of things with CFCs, and I understand the Col

Re: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Mike Kear
I'm using the one that comes from Macromedia. Is there another? The "about flash" says it's FlashMXProfessional 2004 v 7.2 Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month

RE: Flash Remoting remains as elusive as ever

2005-02-18 Thread Adrian Lynch
I don't blame you for feeling the way you do about Flash Remoting. I learnt it in Flash MX and have done it in 2004 Pro but it's not one of the most intuitive things I've ever done. What Flash IDE are you using? -Original Message- From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 Februar