Re: Displaying information from table graphically]

I absolutely agree. This type of scenario is exactly what they had in mind when they decided to develop Flex technology. And I have no time to experiment or take risk. I did some aditional reading on Flex in the mean time, and I found out that it is fully integratable with existing PHP web application (and other technologies as well such as JSP's, ColdFusion, and ASP's). It's just gonna serve as add-on, and make my application transition from web 1 to web 2 standard. The only catch is that Flex Builder (plug in for Eclipse) has a commercial licence, and Adobe sells it for 250 Euros for standard version (professional is about 600) > Robert Cummings wrote: >> Maybe I missed soemthing... what was wrong with Stut's suggestion of >> using divs? Absolute divs within a relative div is great for treating a >> box as a canvas with image layers. Each layer being clickable in it's >> visible portion (unless obscured by an overlayed transparent image). >> >> Cheers, >> Rob. >> > > nothing at all was wrong with Stut's suggestion; however us web > developers have been boxed in and indeed grown accustomed to using the > wrong tools for the job through years of having to bastardise html, > javascript and http to do what we want it to, rather that what it was > designed for. (/hence ajax!/) > > In the above scenario you *can* use (x)html to complete the task and get > something going, or you can use a tech like flash/flex which was > developed primarily for tasks such as this. > > I'm no going to go into any more detail on this, I'm sure you understand > what I mean. > > Regards! >