Re: [flexcoders] Apollo Book: Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide

2007-03-02 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 01 Mar 2007, Impudent1 wrote: So am I to take this that Apollo will not let me deal with a remote filesystem? If I cannot read/write files from a workstation to a server, or deal with a remote data connection, Apollo suddenly seems really useless for my app :( You can always send

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo Book: Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide

2007-03-02 Thread slangeberg
Oh yeah, did he say: limited to 2g As in a 2GB POST limit? That doesn't seem like much of a limit. I may question the logic of posting a 2G file! If that's not the current limit, what is? Tom, what's the current method you're referring to, for 'sending' files to server? -Scott On 3/2/07,

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo Book: Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide

2007-03-02 Thread Impudent1
slangeberg wrote: Oh yeah, did he say: limited to 2g As in a 2GB POST limit? That doesn't seem like much of a limit. I may question the logic of posting a 2G file! If that's not the current limit, what is? fwiw , this is an internal video approval system app, and 2g is nothing for even

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo Book: Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide

2007-03-02 Thread Jim Cheng
Impudent1 wrote: So am I to take this that Apollo will not let me deal with a remote filesystem? If I cannot read/write files from a workstation to a server, or deal with a remote data connection, Apollo suddenly seems really useless for my app :( There's no reason that you'd even need

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo Book: Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide

2007-03-02 Thread Impudent1
Flash Player 9 already has all you need for building libraries to connect to all sorts of remote filesystems: sockets, binary and otherwise. Agreed, I was hoping that Apollo would deal with the heavy lifting on some of this stuff vs giving front end components was the main gist of my

[flexcoders] Apollo Book: Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide

2007-03-01 Thread greg h
fyi ... A sample chapter is available for download: Chapter 4: Using the File System API (PDF Format) http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596513917/chapter/ It is from this book: Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide A Developer's Reference for Apollo's Alpha Release by Mike Chambers,

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo Book: Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide

2007-03-01 Thread Impudent1
Just taking a quick look and this concerns me: Apollo provides a file I/O API that lets applications read and write files and directories on the user’s computer... The Flex framework for Apollo includes components for working with files and directories, but these are graphical components for

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo Book: Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide

2007-03-01 Thread slangeberg
Uh, you're still going to have 'at least' all those capabilities (talking to networked service) already existing in Flex.. What kind of functionality / library / language are you comparing this to? -Scott On 3/1/07, Impudent1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just taking a quick look and this concerns

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo Book: Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide

2007-03-01 Thread Impudent1
slangeberg wrote: Uh, you're still going to have 'at least' all those capabilities (talking to networked service) already existing in Flex.. What kind of functionality / library / language are you comparing this to? Well I still have not seen how this will dovetail into the offline/online

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo Book: Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide

2007-03-01 Thread slangeberg
Binary sockets, for one.. Any other ideas out there? -Scott On 3/1/07, Impudent1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: slangeberg wrote: Uh, you're still going to have 'at least' all those capabilities (talking to networked service) already existing in Flex.. What kind of functionality / library /