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ColdFusion 7 Flash forms

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klaforce

klaforce

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Mar 25, 2005
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Hi,
I am working with the new flash forms in CF7, and I have running into problems. I am using the following simple code just to test it, but I am still recieving a blank page (like when you have HTML in between the form tags). Here is the code.


<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>

<cfform name="form1" format="flash" skin="haloblue" height="400" width="400">
<cfinput type="text" name="text1" width="50" size="50">
</cfform>

</body>
</html>

I started out with the full form, but took it all the way down to this and still nothing. I never get the initializing page, just blank every time. Thanks for any help in advance.



Keith


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anything in the source?

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
 
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something that may help is this thread thread232-910973
7 may have same issues as mx.

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
 
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Thank you for the reply, I am working on making sure all the mappings are correct. We have an old web server called visnetic, and I think that is messing with it.


Keith


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Yeah I have messed with the mappings, and still no luck. Anyone have any other ideas? Thanks again Truth for your response.


Keith


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I had the same problem but then I used IIS 6 as web server.

With IIS 6 there is a connector that recreates connections to the Coldfusion server - then the connector creates two directories in the IIS website (CFIDE and CFDOCS).

I did not have these when I started coldfusion and then when I used flash form notthing happend. Then when I used the connector and the two directories were created it worked.

So chekc ifyou have these two dir in your webserver and if not created them and see if it is working
 
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Do the forms work in FireFox? There's a bug in FlashForms that will cause them not to work in IE, but they still work in FireFox. Make sure your Height/Width attributes are set in the <td> tag containing the form (If you're using tables).

You may want to look at the new CFMX 7 updater that just came out, I hear it fixes a lot of the FlashForm bugs.




Hope This Helps!

ECAR
ECAR Technologies, LLC

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Keith,

What is the form doing now? It is still showing a blank page? Do you have Flash player 7 or above? do you have javascript enabled?

When you say you have checked the mappings have you manually put the cfide and jrunscripts directories into IIS or have you used the connectors in the cfusion/bin/connectors directory? I found that creating them manually did nothing, but running the Remove_ALL_connectors.bat and then the IIS_connector.bat fixed this type of problem for me.

Hope this helps!

Tony
 
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Hi All,
Thanks for your replies. Protheus, yes I do have those folders in my web root. ECAR, I will look into that udater and see what it does. Deadly, yes it is showing a blank page, and I have javascript enabled. Also, I have flash player 7. I also tried what you are saying with no luck. However, we are not running IIS here, we are running an old unsupported server called Visnetic. We are having other problems that we have tracked down to this web server, and we are currently in the process of switching over to IIS. Hopefully that will solve at least some of our problems. Thanks again all.


Keith


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I would bet its something perculiar to your setup, the code works fine for me what is in the rendered source code? Also can you browse *any* flash movie hosted on that server?
 
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