macromedia flash flash remoting: The remoting thing is new to me and I have no idea what I am doing wrong. When
I trace the r.results, flash tells me I have a string. If I try to set it to
the textarea.text property I get the error message:

Type mismatch in assignment statement: found Object where String is required.

Here is my code in Flash

public function Notes_Result(r:ResultEvent):Void {
frmNotes.text = r.result;
//trace(typeof(r.result))
}

Here is my code in ColdFusion

<cffunction name="GetEmployeeNotes" access="remote" returnType="string"
output="false">
<cfargument name="ID" type="numeric" required="true">
<!--- GetEmployeeNotes body --->
<cfquery datasource="datasourse" name="Notes">
SELECT Notes FROM dbo.tblEmployees WHERE Employee_ID = #ID#
</cfquery>
<cfset retResult = Notes.Notes>
<cfreturn retResult>
</cffunction>

Please help me, this is driving me crazy.

Thanks
Jason

Try this..
frmNotes.text = r.result.items[0].Notes

This assumes you are returning only one record.

Wait a minute..I didn't see that you were returning type="string". Sorry for
the bad information.

Are you able to trace the returned results? Try dumping the output="false" on
your cffunction.

See if this works.

Action Script:
Notes_Result = function(r:mx.rpc.ResultEvent)
{
rsNotes = r.result;
frmNotes.text = rsNotes.items[0].Notes //again..assuming one record
}

Coldfusion:
<cffunction name="GetEmployeeNotes" access="remote" returnType="query">
<cfargument name="ID" type="numeric" required="true">
<!--- GetEmployeeNotes body --->
<cfquery datasource="datasourse" name="Notes">
SELECT Notes FROM dbo.tblEmployees WHERE Employee_ID = #ID#
</cfquery>
<cfreturn Notes>
</cffunction>

Not sure but would returning a string be more efficient than returning a single
column record?
I did though make 2 work arounds for my problem.

1.
public function Notes_Result(r:ResultEvent):Void {
frmNotes.text = r.result.toString();
//trace(typeof(r.result))
}

or

2.
public function Notes_Result(r:ResultEvent):Void {
frmNotes.text = "" + r.result;
//trace(typeof(r.result))
}

I chose number 2 for now. It seems that there is a bug here. If ColdFusion
return a string and Flash sees it as an object that contradicts what the Flash
Remoting help files show me.

Thanks for you input, maybe Macromedia will fix this glitch?

Jason

Problem Regarding Typecasting .Java class to .AS class

Hello, I am a J2EE Programmer and am also doing actionscripting in Flash MX,
specifically Remoting.

I already have tried Flash to "talk" to Java but I have some problems
regarding typecasting from a .java object to a .as custom class. Here are the
details:

I have my custom Person.as class in Flash and Person.java class in Java.
Another class in Flash called example2.as uses my Person.as as a variable.
example2.as has a getPerson() method which remotely calls Messenger.java's
getPerson() method. Messenger.java's getPerson() method returns an instance of
my Person.java class which has 2 properties in it,namely firstName and lastName
(both Strings). As i can see it in my NetDebugger panel in Flash, Java is
throwing to Flash the right object which is a Person.java class with right
properties in it, firstName and lastName.
The problem is that i cannot get the properties of Person.java when i typecast
it to Person.as class in Flash.
The following thing i've done before trying to typecast Person.java to
Person.as:

1) registered my Person.as class using Object.registerClass() in Flash

. . .this is done to make Flash understand that a Person.java class is to be
deserialized to Person.as class, that is what I think so. Please correct me if
i'm wrong. What i need to do is to correcly typecast Person.java class to
Person.as class so that i can extract the Person's properties, namely firstName
and lastName.

Anybody who knows this more is free to address his/her insight.

thanks a lot..

you may also email me at image.gif@gmail.com...thanks :)

Problem Regarding Typecasting .Java class to .AS class

Hello, I am a J2EE Programmer and am also doing actionscripting in Flash MX,
specifically Remoting.

I already have tried Flash to "talk" to Java but I have some problems
regarding typecasting from a .java object to a .as custom class. Here are the
details:

I have my custom Person.as class in Flash and Person.java class in Java.
Another class in Flash called example2.as uses my Person.as as a variable.
example2.as has a getPerson() method which remotely calls Messenger.java's
getPerson() method. Messenger.java's getPerson() method returns an instance of
my Person.java class which has 2 properties in it,namely firstName and lastName
(both Strings). As i can see it in my NetDebugger panel in Flash, Java is
throwing to Flash the right object which is a Person.java class with right
properties in it, firstName and lastName.
The problem is that i cannot get the properties of Person.java when i typecast
it to Person.as class in Flash.
The following thing i've done before trying to typecast Person.java to
Person.as:

1) registered my Person.as class using Object.registerClass() in Flash

. . .this is done to make Flash understand that a Person.java class is to be
deserialized to Person.as class, that is what I think so. Please correct me if
i'm wrong. What i need to do is to correcly typecast Person.java class to
Person.as class so that i can extract the Person's properties, namely firstName
and lastName.

Anybody who knows this more is free to address his/her insight.

thanks a lot..

you may also email me at image.gif@gmail.com...thanks :)

Problem Regarding Typecasting .Java class to .AS class

Hello, I am a J2EE Programmer and am also doing actionscripting in Flash MX,
specifically Remoting.

I already have tried Flash to "talk" to Java but I have some problems
regarding typecasting from a .java object to a .as custom class. Here are the
details:

I have my custom Person.as class in Flash and Person.java class in Java.
Another class in Flash called example2.as uses my Person.as as a variable.
example2.as has a getPerson() method which remotely calls Messenger.java's
getPerson() method. Messenger.java's getPerson() method returns an instance of
my Person.java class which has 2 properties in it,namely firstName and lastName
(both Strings). As i can see it in my NetDebugger panel in Flash, Java is
throwing to Flash the right object which is a Person.java class with right
properties in it, firstName and lastName.
The problem is that i cannot get the properties of Person.java when i typecast
it to Person.as class in Flash.
The following thing i've done before trying to typecast Person.java to
Person.as:

1) registered my Person.as class using Object.registerClass() in Flash

. . .this is done to make Flash understand that a Person.java class is to be
deserialized to Person.as class, that is what I think so. Please correct me if
i'm wrong. What i need to do is to correcly typecast Person.java class to
Person.as class so that i can extract the Person's properties, namely firstName
and lastName.

Anybody who knows this more is free to address his/her insight.

thanks a lot..

you may also email me at image.gif@gmail.com...thanks :) ;)