>> You guys don't have to post links but could you describe some of the projects you've worked on where Flex was an easy choice over Flash?
We built a social networking application that had several UI elements - a profile section of the person, a list of knowledge and skills that could be filtered, search capabilities, etc., and the main this was a visual node view of your network - its dynamic - you can reposition things, thing animated, nodes have submenus, draw regions with the mouse, etc. Uses C# Webservices to communicate to the database. Its a mix of MXML layout, Actionscript logic, and loaded .swf files produced with Flash CS3 (for the fancy UI animation stuff that would have been hard to do in Flex). Worked really well, and we used Visual Source Safe so we were able to work as a team on the project - worked really well. We used FlashDevleop + Flex SDK. Would have been 10x more work to do this project in purely Flash or purely Actionscript. Another RIA I worked on was a web-based WYSIWYG performance support generator tool. Used Webservices to save and produce projects. Users could upload and position media, create menus, links, etc. Gave them a .zip of the files to put on their webserver when it was finished. It was done in Flash 8 + AS2. I wish I had Flex back then, it would have saved me a ton of work. Jason Merrill Bank of America Instructional Technology & Media · GCIB & Staff Support L&LD Interested in Flash Platform technologies? Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Interested in innovative ideas in Learning? Check out the Innovative Learning Blog and subscribe. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joel Stransky Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 10:16 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] frameworks and flash While I have no authority to defend why, I'm leaning toward PureMVC. From what I remember it's very similar to whats being described here. Events are hijacked and all commands are registered in one place which can be triggered from anywhere. Of course I'll have to put my money where my mouth is before I can truly judge it. You guys don't have to post links but could you describe some of the projects you've worked on where Flex was an easy choice over Flash? On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Hans Wichman < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jason, > > i only saw this post now, not sure if it was directed at me or at the > list in general or both, but anyway: > > i agree the naming conventions could be better, but I don't mind using > some kind of locator object. I posted previously about my approach I > think. I use an ApplicationRegistry where I register my objects: > > _appReg.register (new ...Model()); > _appReg.register (new ...View()); > > etc and I do that for all key application objects such as services, models > etc > > when I need them I do: > _appReg.getRegistree (IFooBarModel); > > in other words, I locate my objects by interface (or concrete classes > depending on how abstract we need to get). > > Usually I even wrap that using an objectbroker so the previous line > becomes: > > _ob.getFooBarModel():IFooBarModel > > It separates creation from usage, I don't have to import anything > except the broker and works wonders while refactoring. > > I've used in on several projects and have to run into downsides yet. > It has not harmed reusability, managability etc etc, it has helped > improve my coding speed by far. > > greetz > JC > > > > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Merrill, Jason > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Read the article, some good, some bad. > > > > What are your thoughts on the article's baching of Cairngorm's > ModelLocator? The he says its really a global var in disguise, and I > understand that, but I still find it very handy - maybe it makes it somewhat > tighter coupled to the model, but I use the same implementation of it in > non-Cairgorm projects just because it's so handy. I can see where it > wouldn't be good in a coding environment where you have to loosely couple > everything, but it also seems to have its uses. Any thoughts on that? > > > > > > Jason Merrill > > Bank of America Instructional Technology & Media · GCIB & Staff > Support L&LD > > > > Interested in Flash Platform technologies? Join the Bank of America > Flash Platform Developer Community > > Interested in innovative ideas in Learning? 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