AMF and PHP5, Hello World Remoting

[Ronald Wernecke]

Basicly yes, but not functions. It makes sense to combine loadMovie with data loaded via AMFPHP.
This combination gets you easyly where yu want to go.

Replace the label-value pairs with amf calls and replace the php files with service classes.

[Jorge Solis]

Remoting can pass data of any kind, but no functions, that should be compiled on Flash. If you pass the name of a function, say "makeGrid", you can use in flash (assuming it's declared in the same timeline)  this[functionName](params)

Jorge

[Adam Schroeder]

Ok.  Thank you very much for the clarification and the tips.  It does make sense that it works this way,  although I must admit it would fun if I could pass a function down by itself.   This bothers me far less than the near uselessness (reverting to initial object state) of the duplicateMovieClip function.. but that is a rant for another day.


One more question if I haven't bugged you guys enough today.  (last one, I promise)

I have a class called NavigationMenu with a method gotoPageID(pageID:Number)

If i load an external SWF with a button, that I want to access an existing instance of this class what is the best way to do it?

I imagine I could do something like this

pseudo code:
--create new movie clip
--load external movie
--on loadInit()
  --newClip_mc.navMenu= navigationMenu --reference to existing NavigationMenu

then my buttons inside the recently loaded SWF could call _parent.navMenu.gotoPageID(whatever)

I know in general it is not a good idea to assign dynamic variables to a movieclip, is there a better way to get the internal workings of my SWF access to my instance of the Navigation Menu?


Thanks!
Adam

[Jorge Solis]

If you're trying to do something general, the main movie should provide the framework, the loaded movie use it. So all your loaded movies knows that there's a method to go to some section or frame tha they can use, so just calling _parent.gotoPageID, or _parent._parent or whatever path needs to find it is a good approach.

Post new threads for different questions, this helps others to find specific answers when searching on boards.

Jorge