Comments on: Data Connection Kit now Available

By: John

John — Wed, 07 May 2003 18:10:22 +0000

I figured out what the online API documentation wasnt working under Mozilla. The directory paths are messed up.

Here is a sample link…

http://www.macromedia.com/software/dataconnection/resources/api_documentation/Firefly%20Components\DataLink\FxComboBoxClass\Methods\addItemAt.htm

For some reason, there are “\” where there should be “/”

By: si

si — Mon, 05 May 2003 10:19:03 +0000

Hi Kris,

CyberSage wrote a Windows Service application for Firefly RC1 and RC2 which (I believe) was their attempt to prevent people from pirating the software. It disappeared in RC3 and to be honest this was a good thing, it slowed things down a bit in the Flash IDE, caused problems when local connection was dropped (known issue in 2000 and XP) and probably would have taken 15 minutes to circumvent by writing your own service app to reproduce the http localhost message (trival task in Delphi)…not that I tried! honest :)

So whilst there is some work involved, I don’t think it would be a huge task to port the installation process across to Mac’s, and I think Ryan is correct in saying you could grab the files installed onto windows box and copy them across to a Mac. Some searching required as there are a bunch of reference XML files and source along with the .fla components.

fwiw, i’ve been using Firefly for 6 months now and find the documentation pretty good! *shrug*

peace
si

By: Mike Chambers

Mike Chambers — Sun, 04 May 2003 16:27:55 +0000

>We need a “Firefly” forum at Macromedia.

via a newsreader:

macromedia.flash.data_integration

or via the webforums:

http://webforums.macromedia.com/flash/categories.cfm?catid=294

mike chambers

mesh@macromedia.com

By: Peter Tilbrook

Peter Tilbrook — Sun, 04 May 2003 13:02:48 +0000

Yes. The Flash connector is good.

Documentation is shocking.

We need a “Firefly” forum at Macromedia.

Can you assist ASAP?

Any books coming?

By: John

John — Thu, 01 May 2003 22:39:21 +0000

The online API documentation doesnt appear to be working in Mozilla browser. I get page not found. It does work in IE but its seems very slow.

Win2k, Mozilla 1.3 and IE 6

By: Daniel Gnanaprakasam

Daniel Gnanaprakasam — Thu, 01 May 2003 22:23:45 +0000

Frank,

Could you please tell about the setup that you have on your computer such as OS, Flash, Webserver(Cold Fusion, IIS )….?.

Also, where does the sqlprocessor.cfc file currently reside?

Daniel

By: Patrick Whittingham

Patrick Whittingham — Thu, 01 May 2003 21:14:36 +0000

Mike,

Does DCK work with Oracle? Which version of Oracle 8i, 8, 9i ?????

By: Mike Chambers

Mike Chambers — Thu, 01 May 2003 20:02:27 +0000

From the product FAQ:

Is this product available for the Apple Macintosh OS?
http://www.macromedia.com/software/dataconnection/productinfo/faq.html#item-11

mike chambers

mesh@macromedia.com

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 01 May 2003 19:20:51 +0000

The installer has an error. It tries to copy sqlProcessor.cfc from H:\webserver which doesn’t exist on my machine. It also gives an error that I should free 8K diskspace on my drive H. This is my CD-Rom drive…kinda weird huh…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 01 May 2003 19:20:22 +0000

From what I’ve read on other blogs, is that the installer is windows only at the moment.

So technically you could buy it, install it on yer windows box, copy the files from the windows box to yer mac… and delete from the win box when its all moved over..

But I don’t work for mm, so don’t take my word on it..