A while ago I posted an item of how disappointed I was with Java as a
cross-browser/cross platform client-side solution to augment html and
JavaScript.
What I am trying to accomplish is a form for content editing that
includes several textarea-like input fields where the user can
create/display WYSWIG text (multiple font faces, styles, sizes,
colors, etc.)
Dave Watts, the elder, &-)> pointed me in the direction of Flash 5.
Thanks Dave!
I have been fooling around with a trial version... Flash is great, if
a little difficult to learn (at least for my purposes).
I haven't completely figured out the textarea solution (its still
WYGIWYW) but i can see that a solution is possible:
Flash allows you to detect/manipulate the *selection* in a textarea
A Flash textarea honors some html tags <font>, <b>, etc.
So, though I haven't done it yet, it can be done.
An added (unheralded) benefit of Flash is in the use of forms.
When you submit a page containing a Flash form, CF gets the variables
as expected.
What is different is that when you send data back to the Flash page.
You don't need to send the entire page of static html/Flash and
dynamic variables. You just send the variables you want to change in
name/value pairs ala a URL.
For example:
<CFOUTPUT>Field1=#Field1#&Field2=Whatever&Field2=Happens</CFOUTPUT>
will refresh only the content of Fields 1-3 in the form... the entire
form is *not* redisplayed.
Great potential savings in bandwidth & improvement in performance!
Not only that, you get great looking forms, buttons, etc.
Animation/sound/graphics are an added bonus.
Anyway, I am jazzed... in the same way I was when I first found CF.
Anyone know of a good book or tutorial of how to interface CF & Flash?
If none, anyone of the excellent authors out there interested in writing one?
TIA
Dick
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