I also am currently working on a "content-management-like" application using ColdFusion and DHTML and have been looking into moving some/all pieces of it to Flex.
Regarding the lack of people with Flex experience, I just wanted to throw out there that I have fairly strong ActionScript skills and would be interested in opportunities to assist with development and/or maintenance of CF/Flex projects if anyone has a need. Karen -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of scott chidester Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 9:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [DFW CFUG] Thoughts on move to Flex Front-End Galen, Funny you should bring this topic up. We are in the final stages of moving a "content-management-like" application to Flex as well. Here are some issues to consider before writing the entire application in Flex: - Flash player only supports very basic html formatting (No tables/css etc....). This was a major issue for us since our content contained html table formatted text. - Flash Rich Text Editor isn't very 'Rich'. Only very simple formatting is available. We had to use a pop up with FckEditor to get the functionality we needed. - Report formatting is difficult. Simple things like looping over record sets and performing basic report formatting was challenging. We ended up doing pop ups in CF/html for our reports. - Development proved to be very slow and tedious when compared to CF/html development. Partly due to lack of expertise and being a new technology that hasn't had years of evolution. - Lack of people in the area that know Flex. It is difficult to find people with Flex experience to develop/maintain a Flex application. Flex does have some really cool features. However, in future projects I will use a more traditional CF/html ui framework and only use Flex for the interactive components that it does really well. Anyway, that's my 2 cents..... :-) Scott >From: "Smallen, Galen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Dallas/Fort Worth ColdFusion User Group Mailing >List<[email protected]> >To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> >Subject: [DFW CFUG] Thoughts on move to Flex Front-End >Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:00:23 -0600 > >Does anyone have any pointers on moving Cold Fusion front end applications >to a flex front end. > >The primary application I am dealing with is an intranet based >"content-management-like" application that has role-base security and >current "houses" 8 "sub-applications" pertaining to different business >processes. > >I am interested in moving the whole application to Flex, but wasn't sure if >that was the best move. I could also go the route of moving just the >"content" pages to flex, especially the administrative side. > >Any in-sights/comments/flames... etc. welcome. > >Thanks. > > >_______________________________________________________________ > >Galen M. Smallen > Sr. IT Systems Analyst > Quality Data Systems > Bell Helicopter - Textron > > > ><< GlacierBkgrd.jpg >> >_______________________________________________ >Reply to DFWCFUG: > [email protected] >Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists1.safesecureweb.com/mailman/listinfo/list >List Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/list%40list.dfwcfug.org/ > http://www.mail-archive.com/list%40dfwcfug.org/ >DFWCFUG Sponsors: > www.HostMySite.com > www.teksystems.com/ _________________________________________________________________ >From predictions to trailers, check out the MSN Entertainment Guide to the Academy AwardsR http://movies.msn.com/movies/oscars2007/?icid=ncoscartagline1 _______________________________________________ Reply to DFWCFUG: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists1.safesecureweb.com/mailman/listinfo/list List Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/list%40list.dfwcfug.org/ http://www.mail-archive.com/list%40dfwcfug.org/ DFWCFUG Sponsors: www.HostMySite.com www.teksystems.com/ _______________________________________________ Reply to DFWCFUG: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists1.safesecureweb.com/mailman/listinfo/list List Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/list%40list.dfwcfug.org/ http://www.mail-archive.com/list%40dfwcfug.org/ DFWCFUG Sponsors: www.HostMySite.com www.teksystems.com/
