Shaun Mccran

My digital playground

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Flex - Coldfusion Remoting, passing an Object usefully

Ever noticed that with the increase in scale of a Flex application, the amount of data that you pass around seems to grow exponentially? Well I was fed up with passing multiple values back and forth from CF to flex, so after some digging here's the first article in using objects in remoting.

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ColdFusion - Flex remoting struct() case sensitivity

One of the more frequent data Objects that I pass from CF to Flex is the structure. I recently stumbled upon a case sensitivity issue in flex, that can be solved in CF with a slight change in code.

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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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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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