CF Flash Forms to Flex

We have several intensive CF Flash Form apllications built
and are looking to move to Flex Builder. We need to convert our
current applications to Flex and I was wondering if there is a
quicker way other than manually rebuilding the applications to get
them running with Flex? I have tried using a CFDUMP to retrieve the
MXML from the flash form hoping that I could work with that but
have noticed quite a few syntax discrepencies. Anybody find a way
of accomplishing this? Thanks!

You are doing exactly what you will need to do to convert...
It is time consuming...your best bet is to start from
scratch. I have tried and I found it more difficult to correct the
syntax errors...plus I need the code time in Flex Builder to
understand the IDE and what it does...

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Have bee troubleshooting an issue with the server monitor and
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http://groups.google.com/group/houcfug/browse_thread/thread/71160184e762587f?hl=en
In the pre-cf8 days, we had implemented the following "fix"
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http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_18516
However, when I uncheck the "Check that file exists" flag in
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both working. Am I making a tradeoff between NT security and
Flash/Flex?
My question is this, is the "fix" referenced in the KB
article abonve still needed for CF8?
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If not, I would suggest that somebody from Adobe make an edit
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Thanks,
M

I mean when I open the administrator and click on Launch
Server Monitor it does nothing. Does not open and as far as I can
tell no error is generated or logged. If I open it outside of the
the administrator it opens but when I click on Statistics or Alerts
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Made a form in Flex 3, can't get it to load in Flash.

Hi,
sorry, I really am a novice at this.
I am building a Flash site, and have some image galleries that run with a component. To load a gallery into the main page I have, for example, the following code: (this works just fine)
stop();
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Problems with email form in Flex

I've been scouring the web for an email form in Flex for several days now and am stuck because of what I think are these several areas.
Setting up the back end - I am running wamp server 2.0 on my devolping machine and have a Windows 2008 Server with PHP set up at my disposal as well. Most of the tutorials I've come across don't go over these configurations, I've figured a few things out, but am still rather in the dark and am unsure what I've learned is accurate. Here are a couple questions:
How do I set up the Flex Build Path. For example I have a folder created in the www directory of the wamp server named mailform where I tell the HTTPService's url property to post to a php file named 'mail.php' So would this be correct?
<mx:HTTPService
id="emailService" url="http://localhost/mailform/mail.php"
method="POST" resultFormat="xml" result="emailResult()" useProxy="false"/>
Do I need to change values in wamp's php.ini file. From what I've found smtp_server, smtp_port, and php_openssl need to be changed.
Do I need to open up a port on my router (25)?
Would I need to use an alternative app like PEAR: Mail or phpMailer. For testing purposes I'm using my gmail account, the client's site this is for uses a bellsouth.net account.
2. Are problems still persisting with Flash Player 10, like illustrated in this thread: http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=196454 As msfx pointed every email form example I've downloaded, there've been many, I have not been able to get to work. Yet as you can tell there are probably other issues I need to take care of as well.
Please point me in any direction(s) that will help, am open to all suggestions, would just like to get a working email form done in flex so I can finish the client's site. Thank you.

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message
news:gk5em7$3s7$[email protected]..
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>
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viewer is a
> component
> that allows the images on the screen to be moved about
from a central
> point in
> a see-saw fashion ? kind of like a flat panel can be
tilted
> up/down/left/right.
> I?m looking for someone with FLEX, AS2 and AS3
experience to take a look
> at
> this and fix it for us. Interested?
Is this a Flash component or a Flex component? What's the
issue?

Resource for Flash Forms?

I have a new application assignment and want to give it a try
with Flash forms. Can anyone suggest a tutuorial or *gasp* a book
that covers flash based forms in CF development?

tclaremont wrote:
> I have a new application assignment and want to give it
a try with Flash
> forms. Can anyone suggest a tutuorial or *gasp* a book
that covers flash
> based forms in CF development?
i guess it depends on your needs but these days i'd just go
w/flex. plenty of
resources for that.

CF Flash Forms/CAPTCHA

I am working on using a flash form for a contact form and in
the past I have always used captcha images in this situation to
prevent spam...
I have tried using the cfimage tag within my form and it
doesn't seem to be working.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this working or if
captchas are needed? Can bots fill out flash forms??
Thanks!

You are doing exactly what you will need to do to convert...
It is time consuming...your best bet is to start from
scratch. I have tried and I found it more difficult to correct the
syntax errors...plus I need the code time in Flex Builder to
understand the IDE and what it does...

Flash Form Limitations

Hi,
I'm trying to develop a large number of input in a single
flash form, the input is a finalcial survey I desinged it into
different tabs, now I'm in the middle of the survey, when I try to
add new inputs the form doesn't execute!
Is there a limitation for the capacity of a flash form?
The design below is half the details I needed
http://www.dreamconsultancy.net/proj/chilli/
Thank you,

quote:
Actually I got no error messages
It's likely that you haven't turned on the Flash Form
debugging in the Administrator. Check Flash Form Compile Errors and
Messages and then give the form another shot. There are 64k and 32k
branch limits which you may hit (you can google the error messages
for a little more information).
I've typically refactored by reducing the number of styles in
the resulting flash output or by reducing the "nestedness" of
elements inside elements. Of course, switching to Flex provided a
more permanent solution:)

I Need Dire Help Making a Flash Form

Hello, I need some serious help creating a Flash Form.
I Have used a template from another site with the following
input boxes:
Name: __________
Email: __________
Comments: ____________
However, i had the script working fine, along with its php
script,
when i was trying to add more "text" boxes, i must have
messed the script up somhow.
When I submit that form, the name is send and email, but the
email is blank.. ie, there is no "comments"
here is the code:
on submit button:
on (release) {
// send variables in form movieclip (the textfields)
// to email PHP page which will send the mail
form.loadVariables("email.php", "POST");
sent email messege
onClipEvent(data){
// show welcome screen
_root.nextFrame();
and the php script (mailer.php)
php form email.pho
<?php
* PHP 4.1.0+ version of email script. For more
* information on the mail() function for PHP, see
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
// First, set up some variables to serve you in
// getting an email. This includes the email this is
// sent to (yours) and what the subject of this email
// should be. It's a good idea to choose your own
// subject instead of allowing the user to. This will
// help prevent spam filters from snatching this email
// out from under your nose when something unusual is put.
$sendTo = "[email protected]";
$subject = "My Flash site reply";
// variables are sent to this PHP page through
// the POST method. $_POST is a global associative array
// of variables passed through this method. From that, we
// can get the values sent to this page from Flash and
// assign them to appropriate variables which can be used
// in the PHP mail() function.
// header information not including sendTo and Subject
// these all go in one variable. First, include From:
$headers = "From: " . $_POST["firstName"] ." ".
$_POST["lastname"] . "<" . $_POST["email"] .">\r\n";
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$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["email"] . "\r\n";
// often email servers won't allow emails to be sent to
// domains other than their own. The return path here will
// often lift that restriction so, for instance, you could
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return-path email
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variable
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?>
If anyone can see why the "comments" section is not being
sent?
Also: My original problem was how do you add more text boxes.
I want something like this:
Name:
Address:
Phone:
Mobile:
Email:
Website:
Comments:
Ive spent days and days trying to work out how to first make
a form that actually works, then add more text fields
Ive looked at many basic form tutorials, but they all seem to
only have 3 or 4 text fields.. Name, Email, Comments... etc
I haven't a clue how to edit the script both in action script
and php to add more fields easy.
I really need some help with this, its turning into a
nightmare for me.
I can provide someone with my .fla project file if they care
to take a look at what im doing wrong.
Thanks
Pan
ps. Please note: "$sendTo = "[email protected]";" =
this line i know i must put in my own email.

This is all about timelines. It seems there is a movieclip
named 'form' (or possibly an actionscript object, can't tell). Any
variables created on that timeline are sent.
So you could have your new textfields on another timeline.
Or you could have textfields with no instance name in the
form timeline.
Those are the first two things to look at. Post the FLA and
we can tell you more specifically.

Flash form error, can't use the same name more than once? need workaround

I've always written my forms to have multiple buttons, one
for updating and one for deleting. so in html I would do this:
<input type=submit name=action value=Update>
<input type=submit name=action value=Delete>
so I'm trying the same thing with flash forms in cold fusion:
<cfinput label="Update" name="action" type="submit"
value="Update">
<cfinput label="Delete" name="action" type="submit"
value="Delete">
but now I get this message:
2 Errors found.
Error /index.cfm:334
id 'action' was already defined on line 333
Error /index.cfm:335
id 'action' was already defined on line 333
Is there a way to make this work or do I have to either
create a special action_delete or a new form? I'd like to keep the
logic the way I like.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
John

I was hoping to do logic like this
<cfparam name="action" default="list">
<cfif action equal "list">
<cfelseif action equal "update">
<cfelseif action equal "detail">
<cfelseif action equal "delete">
</cfif>
So I just converted everything to html and things work the
way I like. thanks anyway. The forms don't really buy me anything.

Flash forms -- Not displaying in IE

This is my first foray into flash forms, and I discovered
yesterday that while they look/work beautifully in Firefox
(2.0.0.4), they're not displaying at all in IE (6 or 7).
I'm using it to force the user to input their date in a
uniform format, so I'm sure there's a non-flash workaround. I'd
like to get this sorted out though, so my future work with flash
can be more involved.
Code is attached. Please let me know if I can provide further
clarification.

Michael --
Thanks for your help.
I think I've narrowed the problem down -- it's not that it
won't display my flash form in IE, it's that it won't display it in
a Fusebox environment. I'm going to poke over at their site to see
what they have to say -- I suspect I'll need to upgrade the version
of Fusebox that I'm using. :)

How to validate date fields in the flash form

i want to validate the date fields to make sure the values
are not greater than today's date and from-date is less than or
equal to to-date in the flash form. Does the actionscript have a CF
DateDiff function for the validatation?
Thanks

I finally (after much reading up on actionscript) figured out
my problem with date validation...which was similar to yours...
I posted the solution I found for my AS date validation issue
here:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=1232361
I hope it helps!!!

Is this a bug in Flash Player or Flex?

Compile and run this code (it is generated when you select New MXML Application) with FlashBuilder4.5:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" minWidth="955" minHeight="600">
<fx:Declarations>

</fx:Declarations>
</s:Application>
If you are using IE, you will see a blue player control panel. But there should be nothing displayed because there is no
visual components in the code above.
If you are using FireFox, there is nothing displayed.
Same behaves for mx:Application.
I think it is a bug with Flash Player or Flex. How can Flex behave differently with different browsers?

This is what I see in IE 9.0.8112.16421, but not in FF.

Flash forms in Safari 3.0

I just installed the new Apple Safari 3.0 for Windows. I
wanted to see how our web site would work with the new browser. I
found that flash forms do not load. All I get is a blue lego block
with question marks. I checked the plugins and there is a listing
for "Shockwave Flash" version 9.0 r45. Is there something else that
needs to be installed to make this work?
Thanks,
Don

Count me on with the problem. We are running CF 7. I have
also not found anything. I did report it using the little bug in
Safari 3 and have been looking for the latest releases of the
browser. I love the browser overall (I am an apple fan) but we need
this to work. I am wondering if the problem is in how CF renders
and puts out the flash content. Some kind of meta data that is not
up to date? Have no clue however.
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[email protected]
www.goreve.com

How to get "Subject" & "Message" text from Flash form to default e-mail MS Outlook?

Hi,
I have the following code which is working fine except I can't get the user typed data from flash form to my default e-mail (MS Outlook) application. How to edit the following code?
In the code:
1) To ----> this field is okay since this email ID doesn't change
2) Cc ----> this filed is also okay since no changes will be in email ID
3) Subject ----> this may not be always as "Feedback", user may like to change the subject
Whant I would like to add more here is:
1) From ----> this text to be retrieved from "fromText.txt" input text box
2) Message ----> this text to be retrieved from "MessageText.txt" input text box
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var email:URLRequest = new URLRequest("mailto:[email protected]?CC=[email protected]&Subject=Feedback");
navigateToURL(email, "_blank");
Thanks in advance for any support.
Regards.

Thanks for the reply. I tried the code and result is like the following:
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [object TextField]?body=From: [object TextField]
Body: Blank
The problem exist in SUBJECT & BODY.
Further help, please.
Thanks.
PS: I removed the ? before body and put & ------> the result is as follows:
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [object TextField]
Body: From: [object TextField]
[object TextField]
One more thing that it opens an empty web page with the following text in adress bar:
mailto:[email protected]?CC=poweruser@helpdesk&Subject=Feedback

Flash Forms do not work in Production

My question is simple. I am unable to find server
requirements for Flash forms anywhere on Adobe's website. It claims
you can find more in the other technical documentation but I
couldn't. What technologies need to be installed in order to
utilize flash forms SERVER-WISE?
I have a production server, a pre-production server (running
full cfmx7), and a development server. The application works on the
test machine, and on pre-production. The flash form simply does not
render and no errors are displayed.
If I convert it to a normal cfform it displays fine on the
troubled machine. It will not display even the most simple of flash
forms.
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the CFIDE directory in IIS on your production server?
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