I'm not building the entire site in Flash forms, I'm just making 5 forms which are pretty large. It's not about complexity, just size. When this thing is done, I'll be capturing about 200-300 different pieces of data.
The reason I'm so disgruntled is because I had NO idea about this limitation before I started, and I've been a CF developer for a long time (but this is my first foray into Flash forms). If I had known that putting 5 forms into one Flash form would hit this limitation, I wouldn't have used Flash forms from the beginning. Adobe should be more forthcoming with limitations like this. On 1/11/07, Teddy Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Flash Forms were not meant to be a center showcase of an > application. They > are helpful and have great features that Flex natively has. > > They are meant to augment a site and not replace major functional pieces. > They are a elegant solution soemtimes and very aesthetic, but again a > small > tool currently. > > If you are building something robust and you liked the Flash Form > interface, > Flex is the ideal solution as the limitations put on Flash Forms do not > apply to Flex compiled SWFs. > > You don't have to have Flex Builder to program in Flex 2.0. The SDK is > free. Flex has the same limitations of Flash in many ways as you have to > be > careful of how much media you plan to embed before the first movie clip is > executed. This will add to the download upfront. > > Being disgrunteld at other developers for suggesting Flex will not help > the > situation. We are looking from the outside and only have privy to the > information that you have provided to us. > > None of my peers around me have argued against the logic, "If you outgrow > Flash Forms, seek a more robust solution like Flex or AJAX." > > Flex is not the solution for everything. It is a recent discussion piece > that knowing when to use an HTML returned template with AJAX versus a > Flash > movie with Flex. > > Posting to this list is like asking several people to comment on what you > are doing right or wrong. The answers are not always what you want to > hear, > but at least you can derive a consensus or perhaps a different perception > of > the same problem. > > Sorry you had to deal with the growing pains Jacob. -- My Sites: http://www.techfeed.net/blog/ http://www.cfquickdocs.com/ http://cfformprotect.riaforge.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:266298 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
