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RecordSet Howto

Introduction

This page describes how to setup the RecordSet Adobe Flash (MX 2004) example application.

First you need to install the free Flash Remoting components for  Adobe Flash MX 2004 or  Flash 8.0.
If you want to use Flash Remoting for Actionscript 2.0 in Adobe Flash CS3, check this  page for more info.

Also make sure you have  SQLAlchemy >= 0.4.1 installed.

Download

Grab the example from SVN with:

svn export http://svn.pyamf.org/examples/trunk/recordset recordset-example
cd recordset-example/python

Alternatively, if you just want to have a look, you can browse the example online.

Database

For this example the records are stored in a  SQLite database. To generate the database file run:

python init.py

This will create a file called temp.db in the folder where you execute the command.
Note: when you change the database schema in db.py make sure to delete the database file and run init.py again.

Gateway

The remoting gateway for the Adobe Flash Player and other AMF clients starts on http://localhost:8000 when you run:

python gateway.py

You should see something like:

Started RecordSet example server on http://localhost:8000

You can also pass one or more parameters (host or port) like this:

python gateway.py --host=192.168.1.100 --port=8080

When you decide not to use the default host or port you will need to change the Actionscript™ and recompile the SWF as well.

Client

Python

There is a Python AMF client available that you can start with:

python client.py

To see all available options for the client run:

python client.py --help

Flash

You can simply open the SWF file and it will connect to  http://localhost:8000.