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ColdFusion and CFForms

I’ve been hearing a lot about apps built with ColdFusion’s use of cfforms and was curious about the topic. Jason on the FlashCodersList pointed me to this link which is just beautiful if you ask me. It has a very “Flex-esque” look to it. I think my interest in the cfforms stems from appz that to me look like Flex might have made them. The same reason I bought the Flex Style UIComponents. (It’s so pretty)

Either way I got inspired and decided to try something. I have been seeing a lot of components within components lately but haven’t done much of it myself so I figured I’d try embedding an accordion into an expanding pod and then putting som movie clips into the segments of the accordion. I built the first one the old fashioned way and frankly felt kind of embarassed about it although I thought it was cute and I was excited that I was able to have the Child of the Accordion (the internal movieClips) actually respond to a mouseover. I used code embeddeding the timeline.

What I gained from that experience though was the realization thatI might as well try to do the same thing without using he component inspector and dynamically generate the content. It migh hurt my brain a bit more but it would be done right and dfinitely more easy to customize.

With the behavior of the childclips in an external class file I would also have the benefit of not haviong to duplicate the behavior code. Okay maybe I’m working myself up to a bit of a frenzy but you get the point. Okay - that was my pep talk to self. Now let me go try to actually do this the right way.

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