I agree.
Some of the necessary Flex specific concepts to learn as I have found
are:
- The UI component instantiation
process
- Event Listener and Binding
patterns
- Namespace management
- Skinning using CSS, Embed, and
the Scale-9 properties
Personally, I really would like to get
into deeper UIComponent development and learning more about building
Actionscript projects as .swc archives.
Jeez, that really comes out as Flex soup haha.
Mike.
Walt Kimbrough wrote:
I would agree with Karen on this. The UI end of things is pretty
straightforward; if you have experience with AS 2, and get a copy of
the AS 3 cookbook recommended here, you'll be able to handle Flex 2 ok.
Just my 2 cents, pre taxes.
On 1/24/07, Karen Lamkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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
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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
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>To: "'[email protected]'"
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[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
>
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