On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 06:22 , Paris Lundis wrote: > Anyone looked at comparing development time to front end with Flash vs. > HTML?
We have a team that have been tasked with a complex administrative interface for back-end system. They planned out all the screens and all the interactions. Then they decided to do it all in Flash because it was quicker to build the UI - building the forms with drag'n'drop components, tying it together with a little ActionScript and some simple DB admin CFCs on the back-end. That's using the off-the-shelf UI components that ship with Flash MX (and the second set that can be downloaded from the web site). It's safe to say that you can expect to see a lot more 'instant components' for Flash MX coming soon (there's some *really* cool third-party components already!). I tasked myself with putting together a simple DB manipulation app - typical form-based stuff - and I built a version in Flash about as quickly as I could build a version in HTML. Both were butt-ugly but then I'm not a designer. There is a very steep (but mercifully short!) learning curve for Flash - grokking the whole timeline and event-driven model - but thereafter basic Flash is reasonably plain sailing. (Guru status is hard, I'll admit) Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
