Hi everyone I'm developing a RIA that's intended for project management.
Heres the specs...
Its form based, allowing the user to navigate between panels and tabs, entering and extracting data and images from a server-side database, and allowing collaboration between users.
That data can then be sorted and formatted into pdf using in program templates and printed by the user.
The app also needs to operate from the desktop rather than in the browser and, having a background in design, I want to be able to style the controls and UI myself.
Last but not least, I want to be able to extend the application to smartphone.
Considering I have no budget but own the full adobe cs4 suite I was considering using flash/air... but it seems that would entail me buying extra software ie. Flash Builder, Catalyst. I considered Silverlight, but from my research it doesn't seem to have all the functionality I require.
Also I'm a bit of a n00b to OOP and databases, but have a bit of experience in markup... HTML, XML, XML Schema and CSS.
What tools/framework should I use, and what should I learn to get this project going?
Cheers,
Mo
Heres the specs...
Its form based, allowing the user to navigate between panels and tabs, entering and extracting data and images from a server-side database, and allowing collaboration between users.
That data can then be sorted and formatted into pdf using in program templates and printed by the user.
The app also needs to operate from the desktop rather than in the browser and, having a background in design, I want to be able to style the controls and UI myself.
Last but not least, I want to be able to extend the application to smartphone.
Considering I have no budget but own the full adobe cs4 suite I was considering using flash/air... but it seems that would entail me buying extra software ie. Flash Builder, Catalyst. I considered Silverlight, but from my research it doesn't seem to have all the functionality I require.
Also I'm a bit of a n00b to OOP and databases, but have a bit of experience in markup... HTML, XML, XML Schema and CSS.
What tools/framework should I use, and what should I learn to get this project going?
Cheers,
Mo