Nah, you can use spry for the ajax side of things, but the component stuff, like the data grid, are best left to others, like the Ext library. You use Ext to make your editable grid (exactly like the CF8 html cfgrid), and use Ext's Ajax functionality for the create, update, delete of your records, or utilize another library altogether (like JQuery, or Spry, or whatever).
Display is one end of it, the data manipulation the other. Ext can do both, or you can do a mashup, whichever works easiest and best for you. Steve "Cutter" Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _____________________________ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Chad Gray wrote: > Thanks for the information Steve. > > I have not seen examples of "data grid" like activity on Spry so that is why > I thought maybe Spry might not work. > > I have seen the Flex datagrid stuff and how you can use LiveCycle to keep the > data displayed in sync between many users. Pretty impressive stuff, but > really expensive and it will be a learning curve for me. > > Thanks again! > Chad > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cutter (CFRelated) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 2:40 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: SOT: Best technology > > Flex is an option. Spry's ajax stuff is another, though spry isn't your > only option. You could do these things rolling your own Ajax calls, or > use a library like Spry, or JQuery, or Ext, etc. > > Steve "Cutter" Blades > Adobe Certified Professional > Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer > _____________________________ > http://blog.cutterscrossing.com > > Chad Gray wrote: >> I am looking for the best technology to take some of my old web pages that >> basically do CRUD on database tables and updating them to have a better >> interface. Basically try to get away from page submissions. >> >> I am thinking Flex, but does Spry have ways or sending/receiving data as it >> is changed so I can update the database table? It might be easier to take >> my existing CF pages and make them use Spry then to redevelop them in Flex. >> >> The backend to do the data CRUD will be a CFC of some sort. >> >> I just have not had much time to play with these new languages and hope >> someone can give me some suggestions. >> >> Thanks, >> Chad >> >> >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:291620 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
