From what I understand a framework reduces complexity in areas that are common, like a log-in system. I use ASP.NET MVC at work and have done some work in Zend Framework but do not get how a framework helps with client side development. The reason ASP.NET MVC is used at work is for Unit Testing - does a Flex framework help with this too? why I should or should not use a framework with Flex?
View 4 RepliesI have a grid, when i click on the edit button it goes to edit page... but i need the value in the grid also to be passed to the page. this.dispatchEvent(new DepManagementEvent(DepManagementEvent.EDIT_NAVI));The above code lands in EDIT page... how can i move the values too.My Parent Page code.
private function editForm():void {
var event:DepManagementEvent = new DepManagementEvent("Edit Page",true);
dispatchEvent(event);
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What is the use to event extend the cairngorm event in cairngorm framework.?
View 1 RepliesI am new to Flex and need to integrate Java services with Flex UI built using Mate framework. Can anyone point me to any website/links or show an simple example of integrating Flex UI on Mate framework with Java remote services? A simple integration of a "LoginService" will be good enough.
View 1 RepliesI wish to do my project in mvc pattern. so I chose cairngorm framework and just read some of the document about this framework.But I cant understand deeply to do project using this framework. Have any methods or examples to study doing project in cairngorm framework??
View 1 RepliesI was wondering if Parsley framework is compatible for Flex Hero Mobile 4.5? I seem to get a warning saying it's not compatible.
View 2 RepliesI am developing a Flex application on top of Mate framework. In this application, I am using a webservice to retrieve data.As this webservice as not a fix location URL (depending on where customers installed it), I define this URL in a config file.When the Flex application starts, it first reads this config file, then I would like to use the value I found to initialize the webservice.But currently, I have no idea how to this.
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what's the size of the bootstrap code for cairngorm framework which is based on flex?
View 1 Replies[URL] Looks like MVC to me,but I'm not sure if that's the exact framework used. UPDATE Now I know it's using the Cairngorm framework,and I've downloaded all the source files,how can I generate a .swf file? UPDATE 2 How can I know the exact version of Cairngorm used?
View 3 RepliesIn my AIR application I am having problems catching dispatched events in my eventmap. The class that is dispatching the events looks like this:
Shortcuts.as
[Event(name="centeredZoomOut", type="flash.events.Event")]
public class Shortcuts extends EventDispatcher
{
// Event Names
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I am working on a simple project involving flex 4 and Mate framework. When I am including Mate event map in fx:declarations tag in mxml file, and when I fire up an event, Mate event handlers listen to events and act upon it.
The issue is this, in action script based project, when I instantiate the eventmap class(this is in mxml file only) and keep it in top and fireup an event, instantiated eventmap is not listening to event fired up from action script class.
I'm using Mate's RemoteObjectInvoker to call methods in my FluorineFX based API. However, all requests seem to be sent to the server sequentiality. That is, if I dispatch a group of messages at the same time, the 2nd one isn't sent until the first returns. Is there anyway to change this behavior?
View 1 RepliesCan I handle an event inside a loaded swf file(using swf loader) using MATE when my main application fires the event ? i want to make a remote service call based on the data i get from the main applications event , and then populate my loaded swf .
View 1 RepliesI'm working on a project that has a Main.fla and a Preload.fla. I am doing all the coding in Flash Builder 4. Each time I want to test I have to go to Flash CS5, publish Main.swf and then run Preload.swf. Is there a way to automate this process so I can just press the "Run Main" button inside Flash Builder 4 and all that is done automatically?
View 1 RepliesMy company is willing to reffactor its biggest and heaviest project introducing some kind of framework. Are there good online source/issue/blogpost with comparison of these 3 frameworks - Robotlegs, Swiz and Mate?
View 4 RepliesI found a lot of interesting info in the 'hidden features of...' series. I am very new to cairngorm . What are some of the hidden features of cairngorm.
View 1 RepliesI am not using FlexBuilder, I'm using the free Flex SDK with TextMate. I'm having some trouble figuring out what this FlexBuilder process actually does behind all the nice dialogs and things, so that I can do the same thing by tweaking whatever the relevant file is, but Googling just points me at similar instructions telling me to use FlexBuilder.
View 1 RepliesIf you once run an ObjectBuilder the object instantiated will be cached and next time you use an PropertyInjector or something else, the instantiated object will be used instead of creating a new object. Or at least this should be like this :) But in the example below it seems that mate tries to instantiate the object again: The following error occurs:
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I ran into a problem.I'm doing a GIS program using flex. There's a map in my Application,when I click one icon on the map,windowA pops up,when I click a link inside windowA,windowB pops up,but here my problem coming out,when I close windowB and click the link inside windowA another time,Two windowB pop up...
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In Cairngorm (Flex Framework), there is Model Locator Pattern, which is similar to Global variables, is it a right pattern, Adobe is saying for flex its best pattern
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I have a TitleWindow that I open up... and I have 6 states defined.I am using the Presentation model pattern for all of my views. When I tell my window to go to XXX state, the controls have to initialize since the states in flex use lazy loading. so... my PM code that says myTextArea.text bombs out and say "cannot access..." so as a work around, I made some creationComplete events on my controls to register the control with the PM. So when the state changes, the textarea finally initializes and on creationComplete calls PM.registerTextArea() which sets a reference to it. then in that function I run my code... myTextArea.text.. etc.
This seems like such a ugly hack that I hate it. Is there any way to wait until the entire state in created then call code on the PM? I have tried enterstate... but this event seems to fire before the state controls are ready.I tried to add a comment, but I guess editing is the only way I can do this...I am doing something slightly off straight PM. Every view has a viewController (as I call them). Its kinda my own hybrid of a delegate / dataprovider. But this is moot. It's the flex component lifecycle when dealing with states that is the pain.if you change state.. there is no event to say "all my components in this state are ready".only event to say "we changed state". so my code that fires on state change is trying to talk to components that aren't ready yet.So from what I see, there seems to be no design pattern or perfect way to ensure that all components are created in a state unless using creationComplete on every component in the state to register it is ready... if you don't, you get a race condition. Regardless of frameworks or design patterns, this seems to be a root issue.
I am trying to attach video to a display once I get to that state. This is done via addchild. regardless of where I do it.. I need to know that the videoDisplay is done loading before I call addchild. I even tried currentStateChange event since docs say that fires last... but alas.. the components in the state are still initializing. So it seems that creationComplete is my only option. Maybe the only sane way to keep to clean code is to create the entire thing(videodisplay and video) using as once the state is entered. I just hoped the flex framework had events to ehlp me here rather than buiilding everything on the fly in as.
I need to read the URL that the browser shows when a Flex application is called because I would to reference it in a mxml configuring Cairngorm remote objects. The goal I would reach is to automatically configure Cairngorm services from environment to environment (dev,test,qa,prod) without statically set the value in the mxml or other ActionScript. Since the Flex client is deployed in the root of the war of the webapp, it's enough to read where the browser is pointing.
I have written a class that is doing so:
public class ConfigServer {
public function ConfigServer() {
var loaderUrl:String = FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication.loaderInfo.loaderURL;
var urlToSet:String = <loaderURL-string-manipulation>;
_serverUrl = urlToSet;
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But whenever I call the ConfigServer constructor and for every (known to me) technique I applied (statics or singletons or public ro so on), I have always had the same error:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at org.fao.fapda.util::ConfigServer()[C:devworkspacesFAPDA runkFAPDA-clientsrcorgfaofapdautilConfigServer.as:8]
Cairngorm services initialization is done as follow:
<fx:Declarations><cut/>
<services:FAPDAServices id="services"/>
<cut/></fx:Declarations>
And the problem is that FAPDAServices.mxml is read runs before FlexGlobals is valid. Is there a point in the Flex Application lifecycle where such loaderURL is defined so that I can construct ConfigServer? When in startup events that initialization in done?
I'm having a hard time building a Cairngorm Flex3 app that connects to a rails app. I'm used to rails DRY approad, and the Convention over Configuration thing too.. and Cairngorm in awful at these.
How do you keep you flex code as DRY as possible? I've implemented a generic delegate to avoid a delegate for each command, at least.
I see the benefit of asynchronous commands (waiting for server responses...) but in my flex app it creates me more problem than anything. Here's what I want: EVERY command executes only after the previous one returned (to result or fault function) And I'd like to do this as easily as possible.. by the way the GUI must become irresponsive (maybe a wait message) while a long command is being executed (I could show the wait message in the execute function and remove it in the fault or result function..)
View 1 RepliesI have a dataGrid with a dataProvider "documents"A column of the datagrid has a labelFunction that gets the project_id field of the document, and returns the project name, from a bindable variable "projects"Now, I dispatch the events to download from the server the documents and the projects, but If the documents get downloaded before the projects, then the label function gives an error (no "projects" variable)Therefore, I must serialize the commands being executed: the getDocuments command must execute only after the getProjects command.In the real world, though, I have dozens of resources being downloaded, and those command are not always grouped together (so I can't for example execute the second command from the onSuccess() method of the first, because not always they must be executed together..)..
View 1 RepliesHas anyone tried to compile a flex project that uses Cairngorm with command line?
View 1 RepliesI have a few values in Java VO, and using cairgorm framework, i had mapping the Java VO to Action script VO in Flex and given same variables name as java Vo variables name. Now the Vo is mapping fine and when looking the result all variables are displaying as null. Can i know the reason for that.Java returning list of VO's.
package com.configuration
{
import com.adobe.cairngorm.vo.IValueObject;
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how to incorporate FileReference method like Upload into a Cairngorm architecture.Specifically, I would think to fire an event with the File in it, and that's fine. But how would one then be able to listen for e.g. Progress Events?One thing I thought is to have the delegate fire off progress events that are listened for in the View.
View 1 RepliesI have a live chart. I need to refresh the chart with 5 seconds time interval.
For displaying the live chart i disptach the event (myEvent) extends cairngormevent.
And after 5 seconds , the same event has to dispatch again adn get the data to display thelie cart.
And how the event dispatch after 5 seconds with out any manula call..?
Could tools like SWFAddress be used in some clever ways to alleviate an existing client-server architecture. I see possibilities to even introduce REST-like pattern mapping or something like that.
What I am currently doing is following all the Cairngorm guidleines, which has already led to a bunch of commands which all make sense, but inclusing the business delegates, and all that stuff, I am getting into a hard time extending and refactoring the application Anyway, what I thought of was somehow reducing the number of application events flying around, and the number of commands responding to them. Actualy, I am quite OK even coupling the view with some logic, if I can get rd of some layer complexity.
What I mean by that: perhaps, I could bind a button click to a url pattern (or use SWFaddress to change the url globally). On the other end, I wll be waiting for changes of the url, reformat it, and pass it onto a service delegate, which has the necessary mappings in mind, so it knows what method to call, or it could even pass the url directly to an HTTPSErvice. The delegate will then deal with the server response, and update the model, which through the bindings will update the view.
I am not going to completely ditch commands. I thing that they are good for scheduling of the internal interactions (within the client itself), but I'd like to abstain from using them for communication with the server.