March 08, 2006
Introduction to Flex 2 Slides and Code
Last night I presented Flex 2 to the Central Pennsylvania ColdFusion User Group, right down the street from where I live. I've made the slides and sample code available for download.
The presentation was aimed at ColdFusion developers, so my goal was to show everyone how to get Flex talking with ColdFusion. I showed some of the basics of using MXML for layout, mixed in a tiny bit of ActionScript, and demonstrated how to connect to ColdFusion via HTTP (form post), WebServices, and Flash Remoting with the RemoteObject tag.
I wanted to get into ColdFusion Component and ActionScript 3 class mapping, but we were running low on time and it's not quite an "introduction" topic. However, there's a slide describing it, and you can see the sample code if you want to run through it yourself.
Thanks to everyone that came out - the turn out was actually better than I expected. I'm happy to have had the opportunity to share a little about Flex 2, and I hope my presentation was motivating enough for you to seek out more information to start building applications with it!
Tags: ActionScript, Flex, Flex 2, ColdFusion, User Group
Comments
Nicely done, a comprehensive overview.
Posted by: Renaun Erickson at March 8, 2006 11:31 AM
Thanks for making your presentation available. I have been able to get the phone app sample working. But I'm uncertain about how to pass arguments to the CFC from Flex. Below is the info from Live Docs that seems to suggest how to do it but I am not sure how it fits together.
Thanks,
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Posted by: David Farr at March 11, 2006 12:19 AM
Hi David,
Passing arguments to the remote method is the same as passing arguments to regular method.
In ActionScript, just use:
myRemoteObject.myMethod( arg1, arg2, etc );
Posted by: darron at March 11, 2006 08:26 AM