Thanks Ben. I think I will go with the Flash approach now.. no better time to get up to speed.. I'll deal with the elarning curve. :-)
Flashkit.com has been useful in the past, are there any other sites you can think of that might discuss the concepts I will need to grasp to build the menu? Data Binding and Data Glue.. any other concepts/ideas/or approaches? I appreciate the help. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 6:41 PM Subject: RE: CF MX / FLASH MX - Tree Menu > > Anyways, does this sound like a good Flash MX project? I > > have never used Flash to interact with dynmaic data so any tips, > > links, advice, or thoughts would be much appreciated. > > Well, the answer is two fold. One hand, yes, this is actually a great Flash > MX project. On the other hand, if you haven't used Flash MX before, there's > going to be quite a learning curve to get to the point where you can pull > dynamic data from the server and populate a Tree component with a recursive > function. > > I have an article that will/may/(who knows) be on FlashKit that covers Data > Binding using the DataGlue class. That would be a good start. It doesn't > cover adding tree data, though, because that's a whole other can of worms. > > If you don't have to worry about browser compatibility, you can go with an > IE 5.0+ solution which involves some heavy javascripting & XML. That also > has a pretty steep learning curve, but it's really a nice interface. It's > used as the left hand navigation on Microsoft's MSDN library: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library > > > > > Ben Johnson > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
