Dynamic Forms

I am currently developing a moderately large app that requires a lot of different form input.

I am new to Flash and wonder if anyone would care to comment on dynamic forms in Flash. I need to weigh the costs and benefits.

I was thinking of some sort of folding page to simplify the look of complex forms.

I also need to query a DB to build forms on the fly per user input -- like they enter a state, the available zipcodes appear, then the available cities, etc.

Thanks for reading and any replies.

Using components (Flash MX), dinamyc forms is easy. You just need to know how to retrieve the data from different components (combobox, listbox, radio buttons, etc) The ActionScript dictionary helps you in this.
To dynamic build forms, you need to use attachMovie to drop components in Stage on the fly, so don't forget to include all that you needs in the library

Jorge

what code do i need to write do i will
put the combo,radio and so on on the stage on the fly?
thnaks
peleg

Here I attach dinamically a Combobox and set a ChangeHandler. First you need to drag a combobox to the stage and delete it (so it remains in library) Do the same with all components you want to include


this.attachMovie("FComboBoxSymbol", "myList", 1, {_x:100, _y:100});
myData =["Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday", "Sunday"];
for(var i=0; i<myData.length; i++) myList.addItem(myData[i]);
myList.setChangeHandler("show");
function show(obj){
var selected = obj.getSelectedItem().label
trace(selected)
//Your code to use the selected value
}

Jorge