I’ve been working on a way to submit Blackstone Flash forms without refreshing the page, and I have it working quite well. The code lets you either submit data to the server without re-rendering the Flash, or submit the data to a different window (the CFFORM tag supports targets, but the target attribute doesn’t give you a way to submit to a different window).
I’ve only tested it with Firefox, but I’m pretty sure it will work on all modern browsers. It’s a bit too early to release the code just yet, but once Blackstone is live, I’ll release the code along with a tutorial.
What do you guys think of what you’ve seen of Flash forms so far?
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Hi Christian,I’m been on the blackstone beta team for a while and I think the new flash forms are fantastic. I built a business card wizard using the data binding feature that has really been hit here amoung the staff. I can’t wait to put blackstone into production at my office. Is there a place where I can try out the code your referring to? That would sure improve usability in some use cases…
Hi Christian,This is great news! Without something like this, Flash forms are not worth the download time and CPU cycles. Any clues on how you did it? Was it with a separate SWF that included all the needed remoting and XML code? And did you use JavaScript to have the fixed SWF and the Blackstone communicate with each other?
Mike
Just wondering that since CFMX 7 is now live, will you be releasing this code soon? I can’t wait to see how you managed to get CFMX-generated flash forms to interact with other CFM templates without refreshing.
Couldn’t this be acheived returning an http status code 204 from the form’s target location?for example:<cfheader statuscode=”204″ /><!— handle the form submission —>There was a great article in CFDJ on the subject:HTTP Status Codes: Do the UnthinkableImplement threading using CFMLhttp://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=46789&de=1
Did you ever get round to releasing your code for this?