Good question... Many people are struggling with that right now... I don't think that there isn't any structured development methodology for FlashMX. Building a Flash Widgets with MX is great and pretty straightforward (like all the demos of RIA and Flash Remoting...). But building "real and elegant" complex Flash Applications seems to be for the moment very difficult or requires extremely deep knowledges of FlashMX.
The few resources on the subject are very low level recommandations (OOP, MVC...) and do not provide any suggestions for the big picture. Look at the PetMarket... It is the only "complex" RIA available right now from MM. There is some articles on how they've build it. But still, it is very hard to get into it. I spent sometimes few month ago to try to build my own framework/methodology for FlashMX, using OOP, MVC, Flash Components + Remoting and broacasters/listeners concepts, but it was just a basic prototype and I am still not very happy with the result (too complex, too much lines of code...). I'll try to re-work on it when I'll have some time in few month and might present some of its concepts at CF-Europe in may (in London). Some people managed to do it like Grant Skinner and its gModeler (www.gmodeler.com) : one of the most amazing Flash Application I've ever seen! gModeler is built on top of FlashOS2 (http://www.gskinner.com/site1/default.asp) : "FlashOS2 is the successor to FlashOS by Grant Skinner. It is a collection of assets that are encapsulate, reusable, and have documented APIs. FlashOS2 allows for very rapid online application development, as it manages common elements like menus, menu bars, windows, dialogs, tooltips, file management, settings loading, asset loading, content display, screen management and more." To have a structured development methodology for FlashMX is very crucial for the future of RIA and Macromedia should really try to bring an answer to this demand (and I suppose that MM is very aware of this problem). CF Developers would like to be able to build applications more advanced than simple Flash Widgets. So? Does anyone have heard about structured development methodologies for FlashMX+ColdFusionMX? Benoit Hediard www.benorama.com > -----Message d'origine----- > De : dwayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoyé : jeudi 27 février 2003 10:43 > À : CF-Talk > Objet : OT - Fusebox for Flash? > > > Is this possible? I've been looking for a structured development > methodology for rich-applications using Flash. To me, Fusebox > offers a solid framework for organizing and maintaing code. Is > there such a framework for Flash? > > I've been tinkering with Flash-Remoting and ColdFusion Components > for the past 6 months now but I just can't get with the "all over > the place" coding. > > > Dwayne Cole, MS in MIS, MBA > Florida A&M University > Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
