[ACFUG Discuss] OT: Advice on animation

2010-12-30 Thread Szwedo . Ed
We are being tasked with developing animations that display data pulled from a database. Gauges and such. Can anyone recommend the tools and training that we should pursue? Can you recommend any libraries of gauges? We're thinking of using Flex and ActionScript along with ColdFusion and Oracle.

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] OT: Advice on animation

2010-12-30 Thread Steve Ross
Unless you are experienced in flex/as i think a javascript solution would be easier to implement: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/119969/javascript-chart-library On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:24 AM, szwedo...@epamail.epa.gov wrote: We are being tasked with developing animations that display

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] OT: Advice on animation

2010-12-30 Thread Szwedo . Ed
Thanks! I will take a look. ed __ Ed Szwedo Web Development Team Lead ECS Team - ITS-EPA II Contractor 109 TW Alexander Drive, Building NCC, Mail Drop N176-05, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Information Technology

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] OT: Advice on animation

2010-12-30 Thread Steve Ross
these are hot, but not free for commercial use: http://www.highcharts.com/ On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:51 AM, szwedo...@epamail.epa.gov wrote: Thanks! I will take a look. ed __ Ed Szwedo Web Development Team Lead ECS

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] OT: Advice on animation

2010-12-30 Thread Szwedo . Ed
Fantastic! Thanks again! ed __ Ed Szwedo Web Development Team Lead ECS Team - ITS-EPA II Contractor 109 TW Alexander Drive, Building NCC, Mail Drop N176-05, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Information Technology

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] OT: Advice on animation

2010-12-30 Thread Charlie Arehart
I also list several other alternatives in my CF411 site section: Graphing/Charting Tools http://www.cf411.com/#graph As I note there, I do list there both flash/flex and javascript-based solutions, as well as still others. I also just updated it to list a few of those pointed to by references

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] OT: Advice on animation

2010-12-30 Thread Szwedo . Ed
Wonderful. Thanks Charlie. P.S. Haven't forgotten about you re: our slow server issue. Still waiting for the go ahead from management. ed __ Ed Szwedo Web Development Team Lead ECS Team - ITS-EPA II Contractor 109 TW

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Newbie Question with Components

2010-12-30 Thread Teddy R. Payne
Matt, From the talk that you have read, passing the argument collection into a CFC method is no different than passing a comma delimited arguments in the method call. You treat them the same in the cffunction defintion. If you expect a certain argument, you make it a required argument, otherwise

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Newbie Question with Components

2010-12-30 Thread Charlie Stell
Say you have the following abc.cfc : cfcomponent ... cffunction name=x cfargument name=a cfargument name=b cfargument name=c cfargument name=d ... /cffunction ... /component Ang you going to invoke in from somewhere else. Depending on the situation, sometimes you'll have different