I'm making a mobile application with abobe air and flex.
I want to know if it's possible to do it without ViewNavigator, or at least for some part, use something else.
Thanks
You can if you want to. The views are there to improve mobile viewing however. I believe the big point of it is for the use of the 'back' button since each view is added to a queue.
I say you should use it where needed since it was made for that kind of thing.
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for background, I am quite the expert coder, in general, but for .net much more so in regards to console/application dev. I have an excellent idea for a web site, but I am unsure which tool/approach to use.
The part i would like direction on is the main interface. I want a central object containing lets say an image, text, and link, surrounded by an undetermined number of smaller pictures. clicking one of the smaller objects brings it to the center and a new sub of peripheral objects is loaded (presumably from a database). My question is, how best to do this?
I've started monkeying around is JS, though i thoroughly hate javascript. Is a custom control better? I have experience with mvc and web forms - which is better for this task?
I am unsure which is the best approach here.
I also want to animate the objects moving, and to use opacity to fade in/out the objects. I have already gotten some base animation functioning in js, but i feel like there is an easier way?
ASP.NET, web form model.
Is there any sample code/site that demonstrate a couple samples for regular website patterns/ templates? Like if I want to use tab to switch between different pages, should I put the code in a single page or in different page, and treat each tab as a page.
Or if in a search page (just a single search bar and button), should I display my result panel in same page using dynamically enable the result panel, or just to another page?
I want to find a general design pattern/ template. Please advise, thanks.
I don't know if this answer will be helpful to you or not. Correct me if I am wrong.
You are specifying demonstration about web designing. It seems the functionality you want is clearly saying to choose from weather you want to use AJAX or not. I suggest why don't you use jQuery Framework for all this functionality.
I would give this a read and consider what best fits your application and your programming style, no one size fits all with paterns.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd252940.aspx
After you have a general idea, head over to google.com and look for the patterns that catch your eye for simple tutorials
Edit:
For the specific question about whether you should modularize your code. The answer is almost always yes. If you think there is a chance that the component will be used somewhere else then doing this a head of time can save you a lot of headache later. This practice also makes maintaining a lot easier because it gives a clear scope of what could be causing a bug. Instead of having to look threw an entire page of unrelated code for things changing state unexpectedly in the page life cycle.
Im in the verge of starting a new RIA development. We've been using Flex/Flash for the last 2 years but we were considering using a more OS approach so we though giving JavaFX a try since it seams the only solid option available. However after a couple of days of research we found out that there is not such thing as a datagrid for it, at least not in the core API. For those unfamiliar with Flex, a Datagrid is a component that allows you to display a collection of data in column-row layout (much like a HTML Table on steroids). The beauty of it is that you only need to worry about the data itself as the component does pretty much the rest (sorting, column dragging, etc).
Im afraid to ask... but is there something slightly similar for JavaFX?
We require nothing as fancy as Flex Datagrids/AdvancedDatagrids, we only require a easy, straight forward way to display grids of data that are able to have a little of interaction like clicking, sorting and that are able to display images, buttons, etc. without having to download a ton of different jars.
If there isn´t something out there... This would be a shot in the back of the head to the idea of giving javaFx the chance to compete with flash on our project (which is sad).
I really cant believe the SUN people didnt include something like this on the core API...
There is currently no datagrid you can use JTable for that. Such a thing should be available in the next release of JavaFX I think. See my answer here for more information about available JTable implementations. You mentioned the JFXtras project with that you are able to embed those Swing components into JavaFX.
There are external companies selling such a component. E.g. do a web search or look here
For apache pivot you should ask them directly for the pros and cons; they are very responsive and honest.
i know vb.net, but have had no experience at all with web programming. i need to make a web app that can run in a browser where there is a board game and pieces that you can move around. can someone help me get started? are there any examples in asp.net?
i need something like this:
http://www.hallofbrightcarvings.com/game/grid
i don't know what language this is built in, but i would much prefer vb.net. i would like the pieces to be pictures instead of text. please help get started.
I have a very basic example of moving pieces around a grid written in javascript.
You can see it in action here and if you take a look at the source you can see it's done with jquery mostly. Feel free to take a prod around, I haven't updated that version in a long time but hopefully you might find it useful.
I think ASP.NET can do very little for you according to what you described. What you need is either Flash or Javascript skills.
Let's decompose this, you need two things if you want to make the whole thing yourself
Client Side: Flash, SilverLight, JAVA
Server Side:PHP, ASP.net, Java
As you know vb.net and want to work with asp.net, so I recommand to use Silverlight.
How complex can this be?
Depends on what you want to build, if you want to build a Mafia war games, then you'll need to work the user interface and it'll be very hard. Also the server side will be important as you need to handle registration and relation between different players.
If you specify more your question, you could get better answers.
The example you cited above is fully client-side, which means the code all sits on the browser and the server doesn't do anything to enable the grid. So if you did a "Save As" of that page on your computer, you could run it offline.
You should use the view source functionality of your browser on the page you cited, and look at how it's built. It's done using HTML, CSS and javascript. Use w3schools to get yourself started on those three matters.
If you really need to code it using vb.net, I don't know of any way that allows drag-and-drop for web forms. I'd be interested to know though. Ajax and .net drag-and-drop should be keywords for you to look into.
To do this on the web, you'd probably want to divide the project into two components: Client-side and server-side.
On the server-side, you'll want to use language like PHP, Python or ASP.NET. I think ASP.NET has some way to use VB.NET, so that would be a good choice for you to minimize the number of new things you need to learn.
Client-side is going to be the big hurdle. There's basically two different approaches to take here:
HTML+CSS+Javascript, using HTTP callbacks (ie, AJAX) to communicate with the server.
Flash using Flex (I think HTTP calls is probably the easiest way to talk to your server here as well.)
For a game like that, I would think that Flash is probably the best way to go. It will be easier to do graphics and sounds, and it'll run the same in every browser that has Flash support.
Flex appears to have 2 video classes: Video and VideoDisplay. My question is when does it make sense to use one or the other?
What I can tell from initial glancing is that VideoDisplay responds to mouse events because it inherits from IntaractiveObject, but I'm not sure if it's a real difference, because Video seems to have a workaround for this in that you can add your own event listeners.
There's probably more to it, but this is the only difference I can see now. So my question for those who used these objects extensively, can you share your experience when you use one over the other.
You'll nearly always want to use VideoDisplay. Video isn't a UIComponent, it can't handle its own loading from URL, won't dispatch any Flex events, and you can't bind to any of the properties such as playHeadTime. Video is a very basic DisplayObject that's capable of displaying video data, and doesn't do much else. It's more of a building-block, that you'd only use if you wanted to do something funky, or are building a Flash (non-flex) app.