In fact, I avoid Form entirely. I find it too restricting and without sufficient advantage.
Tracy ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Fore Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 7:54 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex 3 Layout of long form On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:46 PM, brucewhealton <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: So, I'm wondering about some other ways of wrapping and presenting all of this. 1) The form tag is required, is it not? And the FormItem tag? I know there are other layout options but there must be these tags, or am I mistaken? Um, required for what? The form/formitem/formheading elements are AFAIK just there to give you some easy graphical structure for a form type screen. That's it. 2) Assuming that is true, then all the fields, labels, form elements and the submit button must be inside the same Form tag, correct? I think FormItem and FormHeading have to be in a Form but that's it. 3) If the form is long, how would I use either Accordion features, or view states or something else to allow easier presentation of different segments of the form? In other words, I don't want this going on for 20+ items, including TextAreas, as that could be long. Break the questions into logical groups, then put then in different sections of the accordion. Lastly, would ColdFusion work better with this than PHP? While I'm a ColdFusion programmer professionally, I'm certain that you can do what you want with PHP. I'm unclear of the methods available to PHP to pipe data back and forth (other than HTTPService, which would treat your PHP page as a webservice I think). There are some neat things that you can do with CF and the Flash Remoting capabilities that Adobe has built for it but I don't see that those would be requirements for what you've set out here. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it." - Jeff Atwood
