Thanks Tom and Tracy. Sorry for the delayed response. My server is actually not even running...and SuperMicro just said to RMA it. Blah.
I definitely want to do this, in the bigger scheme, myself, and I think it would be a useless endeavour to be asking you guys to build this for me...there's no enjoyment in that:) I hope that's not how I come across...I definitely want to feel the pride I can in seeing this thing when I finally turn the key and the lights go on... The front end, this part anyways (gallery mechanism), is almost completely how I want it, and the db is both on paper and in Access pretty much ready to go (for the whole thing - galleries, rating system, blog, image comments, user identification...I'm sure things will pop up as I build, but the core of what at least the USER will be considering, is built in the db). The middle is where I am having all of my problems (excluding the one desire for an Adjacency modeled gallery table...which I can handle perfectly painlessly if I keep it XML). I'll keep going on what I have, and try to work one step at a time. My biggest problem right now is that I don't at all understand Tracy's original advice as for building the tree, the XML part and not tagging things to a result, etc. This part of it is purely programmatic, and abstract, so I can't wrap my head around it. But I'll get there. The books are starting to make their way to the shelves, too, which will help tremendously, and I went to an Adobe seminar last night (CFUG) which showed front-to-back how to deal with a Flex/CF/SQL CRUD CFC Remoting mechanism...so all the parts are there, waiting for me to understand. The adjacency scripting will kill me, though, that's for sure LOL. I'm 38, I have wanted to write something beautiful since I started POKEing colours and sounds in my VIC 20 (36969 and 36976, 36977, 36978, and white noise, 36879...I think LOL) and there's never been a better time for that to happen than with Flex and CF making everything, on some level, at least, approachable. Shawn --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Shawn, I don't think starting over is necessarily the best approach. > All apps are layers and pieces, and you can really only work on one > thing at a time. > > > > So take your pick, and start with the UI first and work back towards the > data, or start at the data and work up to the UI. > > > > I personally like to build a start-to-finish prototype to establish all > of the technologies and protocols I will be using, and then go back and > flesh-out the layers. If I was where you are, with a starting point UI, > I would build the db, establish some image sources, create the middle > tier, and get the data into flex. > > > > I don't think you will get much response starting out with "how do I > build my app" level questions. We do not know your requirements(and > don't really want to learn them) well enough to design an app, let alone > code it. > > > > You have a start, build on that. Keep questions specific. > > > > Tracy > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of shawn.gibson > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 6:41 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [flexcoders] Time to start over: XML/db>entry > points>tree>thumbnails>main image > > > > I must be approaching this system completely wrong because people > don't really be willing to offer help, which to me just says I've done > it completely wrong as people around here are always usually helpful. > I'm open to any suggestions as to how to get the following mockup > (link) to work properly, anything from HTTPService and XML to Remoting > with a CRUD CFC(s) and a MySQL or MSSQL db...I am fine moving > everything over to a db, my only problem is I don't know how to do the > code with Flex/CF (I guess it's the db query technically) for the tree > as the galleries db will have to be self-referential (adjacency model) > and my understanding is the code for such is hard to build. > > Here's what I have, if anyone can offer any suggestions, disregarding > whatever you see now in View Source...I'm willing to start from > scratch if someone sees a viable method with which I might be able to > get people help me through it - I'm a photographer and design guy, not > a coder, so this has been a bit of a nightmare for me to try and get > working. It will be available for anyone who wants it when it's done, > for free, if anyone is willing to help me out here: > > http://74.121.128.139:8500/dataflow/bin/dataflow.html > <http://74.121.128.139:8500/dataflow/bin/dataflow.html> > > The link will change when my server is back up and running, this IP is > just 'for now'. > > Shawn >
