Your reference to "combining applications" makes me think that you're being overwhelmed by the complexity of complex multi-featured apps like FlexStore. My own counter-recommendation would be to first gain a good understanding of each feature that you want to use, in isolation, in the context of the simplest possible app that can exercise it. Then combine just the features that you need into just the app that you need, so that you actually understand every line of code. For example, suppose you need to understand styles. You can write an app with just a Label or a Button and experiment with inline styles, type selectors, class selectors, inherited vs. non-inherited styles, etc. Or suppose you need to understand how to fetch and read XML. Write a very simple app that fetches an XML file like <hello>Hello, world</hello> and displays that string. Then make the XML more elaborate and learn how to use E4X to extract what you need from it. Once you understand features in isolation, you will have a much easier time combining them. Otherwise, you'll be cutting and pasting code without necessarily gaining real understanding. - Gordon
________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mapper2255 Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 6:10 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Combine Applications Good Morning, Is there anyone out there who has developed a site/blog dedicated to showing the way to combining the great applications that have been developed using Flex? Cairngorm, FlexStyleExplorer, FlexStore to mention a few applications that are awesome in and of themselves. However if you are like me, it sometimes seems like you must reach the expert stage before being able to combine these apps. Each one has great features. It seems like, if now one has developed a site dedicated to showing examples of combining these features into a new custom app. It is very difficult to search the archives in an individual attempt to learn one of the apps, then search the archives on a second and work to figure out the best way to combine them. Surely, I am not the only one having a difficult time combining the apps, remoting and all the ins/outs of these details. Can we start a thread dedicated to this thought? If this is old news I would like to be directed to the one site that combines these? Thanks for your thoughts.
