When a flash form loads, it shows a preloader. After that, while the data that populates the form gets retrieved, a small icon with an animated clock is shown to indicate that something else is coming. I think it is very important to show progress to the user, and that is why I like the new Flash I/O for uploading files because we can show exactly what’s going on.
At last! File upload was, in my opinion, one of the most important missing features for Flash RIAs to be taken seriously. One of the reasons we couldn’t reproduce HTML forms with Flash CFForm was the file upload. But now that the new Flash Player has file I/O features, we can use it to incorporate them to Flash forms, and make it even better than regular file upload, with more user feedback such as progress bars. As you may expect, you need the Flash Player 8 to run this example. In the zip file you will find a custom tag, an example, and a swf file.
We made a Reader for MXNA in ColdFusion using only Flash Forms. But wait, it's not only an MXNA Reader, you can also read Full As A Goog :)
You can jump to see the application or continue reading the details. (A screen shot in case your screen resolution is less than 1024x768)
As part of these series "How to populate a cf[…] with Remoting", I wanted to show how to bring data into a cftree. This is the easiest way, but it has some limitations: your xml data has to have a label attribute and the tree is first closed when it loads. If you want to get around those, you will have to do more work with the data returned from the server (I may do it if I have time :)).
read more Category: CFForm | ColdFusion | Flash Remoting |Just because there are few tricky issues when populating a cfselect with Flash Remoting, I made this simple example. There are two ways, one requires our query to contain the columns “data” and “label”, in which case, when we receive the result, we do the same as the cfgrid example:
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