Shawn, I don't think starting over is necessarily the best approach. All apps are layers and pieces, and you can really only work on one thing at a time.
So take your pick, and start with the UI first and work back towards the data, or start at the data and work up to the UI. I personally like to build a start-to-finish prototype to establish all of the technologies and protocols I will be using, and then go back and flesh-out the layers. If I was where you are, with a starting point UI, I would build the db, establish some image sources, create the middle tier, and get the data into flex. I don't think you will get much response starting out with "how do I build my app" level questions. We do not know your requirements(and don't really want to learn them) well enough to design an app, let alone code it. You have a start, build on that. Keep questions specific. Tracy ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of shawn.gibson Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 6:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [flexcoders] Time to start over: XML/db>entry points>tree>thumbnails>main image I must be approaching this system completely wrong because people don't really be willing to offer help, which to me just says I've done it completely wrong as people around here are always usually helpful. I'm open to any suggestions as to how to get the following mockup (link) to work properly, anything from HTTPService and XML to Remoting with a CRUD CFC(s) and a MySQL or MSSQL db...I am fine moving everything over to a db, my only problem is I don't know how to do the code with Flex/CF (I guess it's the db query technically) for the tree as the galleries db will have to be self-referential (adjacency model) and my understanding is the code for such is hard to build. Here's what I have, if anyone can offer any suggestions, disregarding whatever you see now in View Source...I'm willing to start from scratch if someone sees a viable method with which I might be able to get people help me through it - I'm a photographer and design guy, not a coder, so this has been a bit of a nightmare for me to try and get working. It will be available for anyone who wants it when it's done, for free, if anyone is willing to help me out here: http://74.121.128.139:8500/dataflow/bin/dataflow.html <http://74.121.128.139:8500/dataflow/bin/dataflow.html> The link will change when my server is back up and running, this IP is just 'for now'. Shawn
