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Webmaster Forum / Flash / Flash Remoting / October 2004Using Remoting AS2.0 with V2 UI Components
No offense, but is using V2 Remoting AS2.0 with V2 UI components, a covert military operation? I can find no articles with examples. I need to learn how to query, databind, and subsequently update a database. This should not be rocket science. Microsoft support (believe me I do not like ASP.NET, and love Flash ) provides a gazillion examples on how to use their products. Are there any articles, examples showing how to setup and use V2 Remoting and V2 UI compnents? It's more like AS 0.5 with V2 UI Component, when is the next patch ? Ah... So are you saying that Remoting V2 AS2.0 does not work with V2 UI Components yet? Bad architecture? Lots of bugs? Is everyone then using Remoting 1.0 (AS1.0) in lieu of this, with V2 UI Components? Some bugs', architecture great. Mx.data.components.RDBMSResolver does not work in .as files. Mx.data.binding not documented well and with no examples with Flash Remoting. V2 Components work if set up in the .fla environment. Thanks. Do you know of any examples that are published? none. as last resource use Flash Remoting Services in .as and DataSet & RDBMSResolver in .fla, ugly but it works. Have you seen flashOrb.com? It looks like a complete remoting solution for Flash, and at least from the descriptions on the site (some pretty impressive customers too), it may be worth taking a look at - especially with the price. I feel your pain!!! Although I do think it is a cheap shot to count MS proliferation of examples to Macromedia's. There is a quantity vs. quality difference. With MS I often need an example to get the $%^#! example to work. (I am also a recovering ASP.NET developer). Anyway, I have been working through the Jeanette Stallons "Flash Pro MX 2004 App Dev Training From the Source" book and may not even be able to finish it because the Flash Remoting chapter (something I have never used before) is old because of the upgrade and all the classes she uses are basically 'depreciated'. So, I have been looking for days for some current info (even many of the examples on the Macromedia site are the old components) too. However, this morning I finally found a pdf that goes over the topic well (without having to wade through Flash Help). You can download it here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flash_remoting/index.html I hope this helps! Thanks. I read through that , and it helps with retreiving, and databinding. I cannot, however, find any doc, code, or examples that reference how to send data update packets back to Coldfision, or .net from the Flash client. The Trio example showcase on the site also conveniently leaves this updating data piece out. Retrieving, and databinding is only half of the issue. The as2.0 code for sending new/changed data back to the serverside , parsing this XML data packet in CF or .NET, and and then creating the appropriate SQL update statements back to the database seems to be the missing part. I find it truely unbelievable that Macromedia provides no end to end examples that cover the use of V2 UI components, V2 client side remoting, and serverside updating of data using Coldfusion and .NET. I agree that they need both more and better detailed examples of the new components. I am hoping that they are in the works and coming soon. As to using the new components with .NET, I know there are reasons to use Remoting vs. Web Service etc. It also looks like you can remote a web service with Flash Remoting. However, the big reason I would try and use just the Web Service connector for .NET (even though you have to reveal your .NET code as a webservice) is: 1) the examples seem clearer for that and 2) Flash Remoting is built into ColdFusion so you can access it either way. However for .NET you have to also buy Flash Remoting to put on your expensive Server 2003. That in my mind is enough to in most situations do the web service component. It also has a standardized protocol so if something non-Flash needs to access it can. Just my opinion. It may change as I learn more. This has proven invaluable to me in teaching myself Flash Remoting 2.0. Included with many of the class API documents is short examples on how to use them. http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flashremoting/mx2004/actionscript_api_reference/f rameset.html I don't know if this is what you guys are looking for but it may prove usefull. As for updating a database, from my reading online it seems that everything needs to be taken care of serverside. You would make a call to a service with the database changes as a parameter. Then your service would compile that into a database query and send it to the database. The database would return success/error to the service, and then the service would send a modified success/error to Flash, which would display the error to the user if needed. > I agree that they need both more and better detailed examples of the new > components. I am hoping that they are in the works and coming soon. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > has a standardized protocol so if something non-Flash needs to access it can. > Just my opinion. It may change as I learn more. I agree with you. Remoting is expensive. That, and in addition to finding virtually no good examples on V2 Remoting, I will poabably go with the web services route. Have you found any good data binding and data connectivity examples using web services. The one I found are usually not "end to end" examples, and leave alot out? |
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