Doug,
I'm the fellow who made that comment about "Much to learn with very few direct examples In some of the more difficult areas." I qualified my response with "difficult areas". The easy examples are abound. I would love to find examples of more advanced material. Here's one: Is there something available on how a ComboBox would get loaded via a Web Service which communicates to an application server/database server that has an MySQL database which contains the list of items (table) for the combo box? This would include an illustration of the ComboBox data provider getting loaded on the response to the retrieval request. Thanks if you can help me. Henry From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Douglas Knudsen Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 7:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFFUG Discuss] New member with many questions... Their is no 'direct interface' by design. Flex is a UI and is largely agnostic to what, how, who, or where you feed it data from. It is analogous to HTML. This is good design in that Flex can be hooked up to just about anything your heart desires or that your CTO has pushed on you :) With regards to your other response concerning finding no useful information. About three years ago I would agree with you, but present times I very strongly disagree with you. For one http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/ is loaded with examples, even videos. There are numerous other sites and books now to choose from. That said, it appears from your questions you may not fully understand a typical web development stack. Info abounds out in Googleland on this, here is one such short tutorial:http://www.solosignal.com/solo-signal-series-the-web-stack-expl ained Flex would pretty much live in 5,6,7,and 8 there. Sometimes its good to step back to the 50,000 foot view, eh? We have monthly meetings with examples and topics covering several areas of Flex development. We typically, but not always, have a 101 level topic before a secondary one. So please, come on out and join us! I'll also add there are several companies offering training, one of which is local and a sponsor, EchoEleven.com. Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman.com this is my signature, like it? On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Laurence MacNeill <[email protected]> wrote: At 06:13 PM 4/6/2009, you wrote: No you don't have to learn CF to do adobe flex. You can use any backend technology such as C#/ASP on the windows side or php/perl/ruby/java on the linux (or windows) side. I use reails on the backend myself. As far as talking to the db directly theoretically it is possible but I dont think anyone has written a interface between any of the major databases and flex yet. I don't know anything about those other options you mentioned. And the people I'm writing this app for are already using CF anyway, so I guess I'll have to learn it. Yuck. So why is there no direct interface built-in to Flex, anyway? Anyone know? What I mean is, why didn't Adobe build-in an interface to the more popular databases? Seems like that would've made life a lot simpler. Laurence MacNeill Mableton, Georgia, USA ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in the subject line For more info, see http://www.affug.com Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com ------------------------------------------------------------- ***** The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential, proprietary, and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from all computers. GA621 ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in the subject line For more info, see http://www.affug.com Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
