Shaun Mccran

My digital playground

24
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2008

Method for populating a flex combo box from cfc

Many of the flex form elements can be populated directly from the data output from a coldfusion cfc, as long as you get the format right!

Here's the best way I've found to painlessly populate a combo box in flex.

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23
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2008

Strongly typing data between flex and coldfusion

As part of an ongoing series of working out the best ways of passing data around from coldfusion to flex (and back again) I'm looking at the different formats of passing data into flex.

I've heard that you can "strongly type" the arguments and method names etc, and that allows for much easier passing of data back and forth.

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2008

Flex Pop-ups, and disabling/enabling the parent application

I recently needed to create a pop up window in flex, and knew that I wanted to replicate much of the functionality of the 'Alert' method, IE graying out the background.

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2008

Weather Web service (flex) - Part 2

In the first part of this article, we created the coldfusion back end (cfc's). The first thing we'll do in the Flex section is setup our initialize function which will call a Remote Object, to interface with the cfcs.

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