Trio Motor Sample Article

Building the Trio Service Manager: The Work Order Status Widget in Flash MX 2004

In this tutorial, you create the Service Manager status widget for the Trio Motors Company using the UI Components that come with Macromedia Flash MX 2004. The status widget uses the Macromedia Flash Remoting application gateway and ColdFusion components to interact with a database that provides work order data to the login widget. This tutorial focuses on the coding and server interaction of the application and assumes that you have already created background graphics.

Flash Remoting also uses components for many of its functions. Macromedia has recently updated these components to work with the new ActionScript 2.0 coding standards. You can download these new components from the Requirements section below.

Note that this version of the tutorial applies to Macromedia Flash MX 2004. If you are using Macromedia Flash MX, check out the previous version of this tutorial, which was tailored to Flash MX users.

This tutorial covers the following topics:

• Building the interface using UI components in Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 (View).
• Using ColdFusion components for the data access tier (Model).
• Using the Macromedia Flash Remoting MX 2004 ActionScript 2.0 classes (Controller).
• Creating a new instance of the newly created class by adding the code the FLA file.

Requirements

To complete this tutorial, install the following software and files:

Macromedia Flash MX 2004 (minimum)

• Try
• Buy

Macromedia Flash Remoting MX

• Try
• Buy

Flash Remoting MX 2004 Components

• Download

Tutorials and sample files:

• mx2004tutorial.zip Tutorial files (ZIP, 817K)
• mx2004solution.zip Solution (ZIP, 441K)

Important: Unzip the tutorial and solution files and read the readme.txt file, which explains how to set up the application.

Prerequisite Knowledge

If you are new to Macromedia Flash MX 2004, see the sections on ActionScript Basics and Using Components in Flash Help by selecting Help > How Do I. Click the Help Tab and the topics appear.

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