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.

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Help with Radio Buttons & Combo Box for Flash Form that sends email

I'm having a bit of a hard time with a Flash form that I'm working on.
I've got the basic text fields working fine, but I'm not sure how to retrieve the values from the Radio Button and Menu List components.
The PHP script pulls the values from the text fields with:
$contact_name = $_POST['name'];
$contact_email = $_POST['email'];
$contact_subject = $_POST['subject'];
but using
$radioGroup = $_POST['radioGroup'];
doesn't retrieve the selected radio button value.
The radio buttons have a groupName of "radioGroup". The combo box component doesn't even show up in the HTML version, but does in the .swf.
Can anyone point me in the correct direction to pull these values from these components and get them passed to the PHP form? The native .FLA and the php file are here for reference:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/21984/flashform.zip
My solution needs to be ActionScript 2.
Thanks!

again, you assign a variable. the selected radiobutton's data and/or label isn't going to magically be sent to the php file.
for example, if you have sendLV and receiveLV loadvars instances, you can use:
sendLV.rbData=yourradiogroup.selection.data;
sendLV.yourothervariables=yourothervariables;
sendLV.sendAndLoad("yourphp.php",receiveLV,"POST");

Browser settings for Flash Forms?

I have set up a site using Flash Forms. It is working for all
of my coworkers except one. He cannot see Flash Forms on any site,
not just the one I created. Are there some browser settings that
need to be set to see Flash Forms? This is happening for him in
both IE & Firefox, though. Also, we are behind a firewall that
blocks Activex, so maybe this has something to do with it, but I
don't know why it would work for everyone else.
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Nevermind... I found out his Flash Player was WIN 9,0,47,0
while everyone else is WIN 9,0,124,0 . He upgraded & it is
working.

Best practices for Flash forms

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec10372 -7fed.html

Hi,
I can say the "Recompliation" is nothing but Refreshing the
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to be the expensive process...
So to overcome this, The "CFC's" are come into play which
eventually communicates with the CF Server and returning the
results back to the UI behind the scenes..

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
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Did you make sure that you have a virtual directory mapped to
the CFIDE directory in IIS on your production server?
Ron

Flash Forms and Eolas Fix

Has anyone seen a workable fix with regard to the Eolas
problem. For those unfamiliar, I'm referring to the box around all
Flash content requiring the user to click before they can interact
with the form.
I'm particularly interested in the fix for Flash Forms in
ColdFusion. I have MX7 installed. I have a JS script for
movies...but to date, nothing works for Flash Forms.

Have you tried CFMX 702 updater? That has a fix for EOLAS
issue.
More details at:
http://www.asfusion.com/blog/entry/eolas-fix-for-coldfusion-flash-forms

CF Flash Forms

I have been trying to get the <cfselect> tag to
populate in Flash forms with no success. It will populate formated
as HTML or XML. The other frustrating thing is a ticking clock that
won't go away. I thought that I didn't have Flash remoting wasn't
working so I took care of that. Here is the code:
<cfform format="flash" name="AskESU" width="500">
<cfformgroup type="panel" label="Ask ESU" height="400">
<cfselect name="typeID" label="Select:">
<cfoutput query="gettype"><option value="#typeID#"
selected="selected">Select
Department</option></cfoutput>
</cfselect>
<cfinput type="text" name="firstName" label="First
Name:">
<cfinput type="text" name="lastName" label="Last
Name:">
<cfinput type="text" name="email" label="Email:"
pattern="^\w+([\.-]?\w+)*@\w+([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,3})+$"
validate="regular_expression" required="yes" message="You must
enter a valid E-Mail Address">
<cfinput type="text" name="confirm" label="Confirm Email:"
>
<cftextarea cols="30" rows="5" name="comments"
label="Comments:"></cftextarea>
<cfinput type="submit" name="submit" value="Ask">
</cfformgroup>
</cfform>

Hi
You need virtual directory CFIDE in IIS or Apache for flash
form for dynamic cfselect.
try your form with format="html" does it generate javascript
message for required fields.
Thanks

Resources for creating secure Flash content?

I am looking for any articles, tutorials or other resources
for creating secure Flash content. Maybe even a "best practices"
article? I am looking to create a login, I need to store users,
register users and secure the content.
Thanks in advance for any time of help with this.
|rossimo|

Hi again Nick
I dunno, perhaps I'm too practical and that holds me back. But I see things this way. If you are just trying to come to terms with Captivate, why complicate matters further by tossing Flash into the mix. I mean, I'm assuming that Flash itself has its own nuances and ways of working. So you really have to first have a real tight handle on how it works. THEN you want to mix in Captivate. And Flash seems to have it's own way of dealing with the Captivate stuff. Inevitably Captivate seems to impose it's own "weirdness" on things. So my goal is to stay as simple as I can unless I really need to step beyond what the basics offer. Then I am keenly aware that the road I'm choosing to travel is fraught with pitfalls that won't be easy to discern or overcome.
I have to ask myself if the possible benefit warrants the extra effort involved.
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Safari 3 for Windows - Flash Forms broken

I've read quite a few posts regarding Flash Forms not working
in Safari 3 for Windows, but I have yet to hear an explanation or
fix.
So, are Flash Forms broken for everyone when using Safari 3
for Windows?
And, if so, why?
For example, this following data grid loads for me in Safari
- but it does NOT load any data. Data does successfully load data
when using IE, etc.
http://www.asfusion.com/examples/item/filtering-records-on-a-cfform-grid
Thanks,
David

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Flash form not loading in IE6

Hello, all.
The issues are just appearing out of the woodworks, now.
The project I am working on (
http://www.goldininstitute.org/staging_directory/)
now has yet another issue - in IE6, the flash form does not load at
all. It's supposed to be in the lower left corner - a login form,
just username and password with a submit button - and works great
in FF/NN/Op, but does not appear at all in IE6. Is this another
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[code]
<tr>
<td style="width:249px; height:202px;
background-color:##E6E5D3; vertical-align:top; text-align:center;
color:##000000; font-size:11px; font-family:Arial;
font-weight:normal; padding:0px; border-bottom:1px solid
##666666;">
<img src="images/goldinFlash2.gif" alt="The Goldin
Institute Online" name="TGI_logo" width="240" height="50"
vspace="0" hspace="5" border="0" align="left" /><img
src="images/spacer.gif" alt="" name="spacer" width="1" height="1"
vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" />
<cfif isDefined("session.firstName") AND
len(trim(session.firstName)) gt 0>
<table style="width:100%; height:151px;" border="0"
cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" hspace="0" vspace="0">
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;
padding:5px; font-size:12px; font-weight:bold;">Hello,
#trim(session.firstName)# #trim(session.lastName)#<cfif
len(trim(session.suffix))>#replace(trim(session.suffix),".","","all")#</cfif>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;
padding:5px; font-size:12px; font-weight:bold;">To log out,
click <a href="#request.localhost#logout.cfml"
style="color:blue;">here</a>.</td>
</tr>
</table>
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action="#request.localhostsecure#loginaction.cfml" method="post"
name="myInstituteLogin" id="myInstituteLogin" enablecab="yes"
preservedata="yes"
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height="127" skin="haloOrange" style="background-color:##E6E5D3;
color:##000000;">
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id="username" maxlength="20" enabled="yes" visible="yes"
height="20" width="125" style="#formStyle#" required="yes"
message="Please enter your Username"
value="#trim(session.username)#" label="Username" />
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[/code]
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^_^

> "Your current security settings prohibit running
> ActiveX controls on this page. As a result the page may
not display
> correctly."
This would only be in local preview, right?
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>I have a flash video embedded in my page that plays fine
in FF and IE7,
>however
> when loading the page in IE6 the video is absent (the
"red x" is in its
> place)
> and I receive the message "Your current security
settings prohibit running
> ActiveX controls on this page. As a result the page may
not display
> correctly."
>
> Now, this happens in IE6 only on the default security
settings. I have
> other
> sites that embed flash video and play fine in IE6
without warning...they
> weren't created with Dreamweaver CS3 though.
>
> What is triggering this in IE 6 and can I remove some
code from my page to
> prevent this?
>
> Thanks for any help to what is probably a noobish
question.
>

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template="frame.cfm">
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the main
window so that the visitor can see the navigation and flash
intro
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to
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Ok it's good to learn but if you want to save time and effort
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$39
HTH
Ian
[email protected]
http://www.edwards-micros.co.uk

I need help to install Toolkit CreateJS for Flash CS6.

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I need help in installing CreateJS for Flash CS6. I had downloaded the Toolkit CreateJS from here: http://www.adobe.com/go/downloadcreatejs and here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/createjs/articles/using-flash-pro-toolkit- createjs.html. When I attempted to install the extension using Adobe Extension Manager, the installation files did not have the required .zxp or .mxp files. It only had a file with a .mxi extension. Please advise. Thanks.

Why installing IIS o_O?
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"the activex control for flash player could not be registered" - Solutions Roundup

I recently ran into this problem on my computer:
http://at32.s3.amazonaws.com/flash_install_problems2.jpg
I am a Flash developer (as in I write SWFs, I don't work for Adobe). and when I updated IE to 10.2, "the activex control for flash player could not be registered". Since I am a developer, I also have Firefox and Chrome installed, with Flash running without problems. For a long time now, Internet Explorer has used a different version (ActiveX) to the other browsers, which use plugins. I am a strong supporter of Flash, it's great to develop with and has a very wide feature set which is growing all the time, unlike fixed technologies/standards. However, the weakest part is the install process - I don't understand why their is a Download Manager. Google Chrome does it's best (so far) by managing the install/update process entirely in the background. Anyway, it was in my best interest to try and get to the bottom of this.
For the record, on the problem machine I have Windows 7 with IE8, but I have seen almost identical symptoms with IE9, Windows XP SP3, as well as various iterations of Flash Player (10.0, 10.1, 10.2 and even some final editions of version 9).
First I tried the standard support here:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/191/tn_19166.html
Basically, doing the manual uninstall and manual install of the latest version (without using the download manager, or have IE open). This did not work. I also tried the Microsoft "subinacl" program, together with "reset_fp10.bat". This didn't work either. However, you should try all of these things first before progressing further.
A quick note about people who had tried running the following at a command prompt: "secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose"
I didn't do this, because on investigating further it didn't seem to work with Windows 7, only Windows XP, Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 - though there was a few threads where this had fixed the problem for some users.
For my solution, it is recommended you use the manual uninstall / installers, so you should have them downloaded ready to use.
I then heard about problems with permissions in the registry with the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\shockwaveflash.shockwave
So I opened regedit.exe (start - run - typed "regedit.exe"), navigated to the key and sure enough, I couldn't open it - permission denied - even though I had an administrator account. If for some reason, you can access this key (and any subkeys), then it's likely the following fix will not resolve the problem.
I then done further diagnosis, by using Process Monitor to try and install Flash Player, and I got the following:
http://at32.s3.amazonaws.com/flash_install_problems.gif
This shows all the access denied errors the Flash Player install was experiencing when trying to write to the registry key. This confirmed that this was the problem. I only stress this because several people said it was unwise to tinker with the registry. Though this is common advice, this is the only known fix for this precise problem at present, since you need to manually adjust the permissions yourself. I don't know who is at fault here - Microsoft or Adobe - but let's just get Flash fixed...
The solution:
Firstly, you may want to backup your registry, or the exact key. I didn't do this so I've provided no instructions on how to, but it is recommended for the paranoid. Also make sure as much software is closed down as possible - browsers, IM software, any junk in your system tray. As way of example, I happened to have "BBC iPlayer" installed and running in the background which uses Adobe AIR and Flash Player, so I exited that too.
1) Open regedit (start - run - type "regedit.exe"). You may need to right click on it and select "Run As Administrator", but I didn't as my account was already administrator.
2) Navigate to the key. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\shockwaveflash.shockwave
Click on it to confirm that you cannot access it (you will get an error) - if their are no problems - this probably isn't the cause of your issues.
3) Right click on it and click Permissions, and ignore any message that may pop up.
4) Under "Group or Usernames" click "Add". Type your account name name, or "Administrators" in the box, then "Check Names" to format it correctly, then Ok.
5) Now on the next screen click the checkbox to enable Full Control (this will also automatically enable "Read" permission too).
6) Click Advanced, then the "Owner" tab at the top. You will see that their is no "Current Owner". This is what we will now fix.
7) Click on your name to change the owner to (I went for Administrators). Also enable the checkbox entitled "Replace Owner on subcontainers and objects". Then click Ok. You will get an error message, which you can try clicking Retry to, but hit Cancel - this is not a problem.
8) Click Ok a couple of times and this part of your registry is now fixed.
9) Now it's a simple case of running the manual Flash uninstall program, then finally the manual Flash installer (for Active X - not the Firefox/Chrome plugin versions). To my surprise, after a couple of days looking into this - I finally had a solution and Flash in IE once more. If you are using Firefox too you may find Flash is no longer installed their (the uninstaller removed it). In this case just install via the Adobe site or try to watch a video on You Tube and you will be prompted or linked to the install.
Hope this provides a good round up of the possible solutions to this problem. Hopefully Microsoft or Adobe can find out what causes this issue in the first place so we don't have to go down this route for much longer. Chrome's implementation of Flash shows how effortlessly things can work!

They will stay on the screen. However, Process Monitor is only intended for advanced users. It is recommended that users try to navigate to the troublesome registry key using regedit, and see if they can access it or not without an error. This is far easier than trying to use Process Monitor, which is very complicated.
I used Process Monitor to confirm that it was just that key which was causing the problem, and not others. Process Monitor is not to be confused with the new Resource Monitor which is accessible via Task Manager in Windows 7 (and possibly Vista). If you must experiment (and Process Monitor is very useful for diagnosing many deep-level problems if you know what you're looking for) Process Monitor can be downloaded from here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645
It replaces the older Sysinternals "FileMon" and "RegMon". For those interested in the technical side, I had to setup a number of filters to be able to get the results display as in the screenshot. First of all to just show Registry events. Then to just show events from the manual Flash activeX installer executable. The I added a filter to show only non-successfull results. And finally, for the purposes of the screenshot, added a filter to just show those with "Access Denied", since other non-critical errors are also picked up due to missing keys because installation has not yet been fully completed I guess. When experimenting, most of these filters were applied using the "is not" boolean logic, which will make sense if you experiment with the program.
Without adding any filters, it picks up so many events (hundreds per second) that it's otherwise unusable. e.g. 40,000 events within the first few seconds of opening the program. For this reason, I recommend simply using Regedit to diagnose the problem with the particular Flash registry key.

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";
// next include a replyto
$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
send
// email to a hotmail account. (hosting provider settings may
vary)
// technically bounced email is supposed to go to the
return-path email
$headers .= "Return-path: " . $_POST["email"];
// now we can add the content of the message to a body
variable
$message = $_POST["message"];
// once the variables have been defined, they can be included
// in the mail function call which will send you an email
mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
If anyone can see why the "comments" section is not being
sent?
Also: My original problem was how do you add more text boxes.
I want something like this:
Name:
Address:
Phone:
Mobile:
Email:
Website:
Comments:
Ive spent days and days trying to work out how to first make
a form that actually works, then add more text fields
Ive looked at many basic form tutorials, but they all seem to
only have 3 or 4 text fields.. Name, Email, Comments... etc
I haven't a clue how to edit the script both in action script
and php to add more fields easy.
I really need some help with this, its turning into a
nightmare for me.
I can provide someone with my .fla project file if they care
to take a look at what im doing wrong.
Thanks
Pan
ps. Please note: "$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">
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<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.

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