I'm not sure by what you mean by "see it in your OS", but it would be similar to using, say Excel. Instead of jumping around to different pages to add, update, delete info, you just type directly in the field and it changes, without having to go to an "Action" page for processing. One screen is all the user has to deal with. The display of data and form for processing are integrated.
With a Flash interface, the experience would be the same: you would have a live dataview which would allow for updating, adding, and deleting information without changing screens. No going to another page for an update form, etc. It's not the cool effect that's significant. I remember when I first started browsing websites, it was very confusing jumping around all over the place, not knowing where I was in relation to where I'd been, etc...jumping around in "cyberspace." For business owners, whose experience is more with using software than "HTMLware", jumping between pages to process info is confusing, until they get the hang of it. But that first impression for a prospective client can make or break the "sale" of a project. The hurdles I'm trying to overcome by using a single-page app interface are those experienced by users who are used to doing everything, as much as possible, on one page of an app, like Excel, or Word... For these users, avoiding the "Click here to update this information", then going to a form, editing the info, submitting, getting confirmation and another "Click here to update another record", etc., can be replaced by live editing of info onscreen, while other information on the screen is automatically updated. It's a process that is simpler for users to understand initially. And, too, Flash can create the beautiful graphic interfaces which provide the "finishing touch" to any great app... ;o) Rick -----Original Message----- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (REC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 11:22 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Flash for data views : WAS Ben's J2EE Book, now new course t o be offered by MACR It depends, yeah sure its 'cool', but do you really gain from using a flash movie? sure, you get the movie in the browser window and you dont have to reload the page persay - but you still have to load the information into the movie and this effectively is your page load. Multiple Page operations are simply by design, jeez if it was so cool to keep the user on one screen then you could expect to see it within your OS wouldnt you!? N -----Original Message----- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 September 2002 16:19 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Flash for data views : WAS Ben's J2EE Book, now new course t o be offered by MACR Neil, do you see any advantage to "one-page" data presentation and maintenance interfaces as opposed to multiple-page interfaces? Rick -----Original Message----- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (REC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 10:57 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Flash for data views : WAS Ben's J2EE Book, now new course t o be offered by MACR so you are using an animation tool and doing no an animation? I may just be a tad blinkered, but its like using IE to browser text files and not HTML.... doesnt make sense... -----Original Message----- From: Mike Chambers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 September 2002 15:35 To: CF-Talk Subject: Flash for data views : WAS Ben's J2EE Book, now new course to be offered by MACR > -----Original Message----- > From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (REC) > I like Flash, dont get me wrong, but if all you are doing it > linking to a DB > for a static form or grid etc, then you may as well use HTML > and no I am not > anti Flash Remoting - far from it, I just dont see the > business benefit > (development time = cost) of using say Flash for things which could be > developed in normal HTML. If all you are doing is presenting data to the user with no interaction, then there is not much advantage to using Flash. However, if the users interacts with that data in any way, then there are advantages. Namely, the fact that the entire page will not need to be refreshed to update the data view (or to submit data, etc). btw, that workflow requires no animation. I have been working with Flash for about 4 years now, and I dont think i have done any animation for about 2 years. All of my Flash applications consists of one Frame which a bunch of components, and data going back and forth from Flash and the server. > What I am driving at is this : there is no real 'Spectrum of > Participants' > (sorry Ray) of how to get a movie up and running. For what its worth, here is my workflow. 1. create functionality of movie using ActionScript and components. 2. send it to a designer to make it look pretty. btw, as far as time and costs, in a lot of cases i think the developing in Flash is easier / faster than in HTML since I don't have to write a bunch of code that maintains client state across page views. mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm 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