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gtd-php v0.8 interface in Flex Builder

This is a crude first attempt to build an interface to gtd-php v0.8 in Flex Builder. There are quite a few gotchas with Flex Builder, particularly if you might be using a proxy, or https.

Anyway, I got this to work in some installations, but not all: if anyone else wants to run with it, here's what I've got so far - a working interface to create an inbox item.

Note that if you run the flash file from a different server to where your gtd-php installation is, you'll need a file called crossdomain.xml in the root of the server on which gtd-php is installed: it should look like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<cross-domain-policy>
    <allow-access-from domain="*"/>
</cross-domain-policy>

My skeleton Flex source code, which I got to work on some installations (running on a local pc, accessing a remote server via http, not https).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" 
    styleName="plain" layout="absolute" width="350" height="300" creationComplete="fOnStart()">
	<mx:Form id="tCreate" label="Create" width="100%" height="100%">
        <mx:FormItem label="T">
    		<mx:TextInput id="tiTitle"  tabIndex="1" width="284"/>
        </mx:FormItem>
        <mx:FormItem label="D" width="317">
	    	<mx:TextArea id="taDescription" tabIndex="2" wordWrap="true" height="100" width="284"/>
        </mx:FormItem>
        <mx:FormItem>
	    	<mx:Button id="bCreate" tabIndex="3" label="Create" click="bCreate_click()"/>
        </mx:FormItem>
        <mx:FormItem label="U" >
        	<mx:TextArea id="tURL" tabIndex="4" height="40" width="284" />
        </mx:FormItem>
        <mx:Text id="tOut" text="Ready" height="60" width="315"/>
	</mx:Form>
    <mx:HTTPService
    	id="hPost"
    	concurrency="single"
    	contentType="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
		fault="hFailed()"
		method="POST"
		requestTimeout="60"
		result="hSucceeded()"
		resultFormat="xml"
		showBusyCursor="true"
    /> 

    <mx:Script><![CDATA[ 
    	// ---------------------------------------------------------------
    	import flash.net.SharedObject;
    	private var soConfig:SharedObject;
        // ---------------------------------------------------------------
        public function fOnStart() : void {
        	soConfig = SharedObject.getLocal("application-name");
        	fOptLoad();
        }
        // ---------------------------------------------------------------
        public function fOptLoad() : void {
        	if (soConfig.data.hasOwnProperty('url'))
        		tURL.text = soConfig.data.url;
        	else {
        		soConfig.data.url='';
        		soConfig.flush();
        	}
        }
        // ---------------------------------------------------------------
        public function fOptSave() : void {
        	soConfig.data.url  = tURL.text;
        	soConfig.flush();
        }
        // ---------------------------------------------------------------        
        public function bCreate_click() : void {
        	var params:Object = new Object();
        	var rootURL:String;

        	bCreate.enabled=false;
        	fOptSave();
            rootURL=soConfig.data.url;
            if (rootURL.slice(-1,1)!='/')rootURL+='/';
            if (rootURL.substr(0,4)=="https") hPost.destination="DefaultHTTPS";
            hPost.url=rootURL+"processItems.php";

            params.title= tiTitle.text;
            params.description=taDescription.text;
            params.action="create";
            params.type="i";
            params.output="xml";

            hPost.send(params); // parameters in object containing name-value pairs
        	taDescription.text='';
        	tiTitle.text='';
        }
        // ---------------------------------------------------------------
        public function hFailed() : void {
        	tOut.text="request failed - ";
        }
        // ---------------------------------------------------------------
        public function hSucceeded() : void {
        	var xTxt:XMLNode;
        	xTxt=hPost.lastResult as XMLNode;
        	tOut.text=xTxt.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
        	// loop throught gtdphp -> result -> line - get nodeValue
        	tiTitle.setFocus();
        	bCreate.enabled=true;
        }
        // ---------------------------------------------------------------
    ]]></mx:Script> 
</mx:Application>

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