Gotcha. That makes sense. ------Original Message------ From: Paul Andrews Sender: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com To: Flash Coders List ReplyTo: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Design pattern? Sent: Jan 17, 2010 2:36 PM
Nathan Mynarcik wrote: > Why not just save the state when the user clicks? Each click can then just > overwrite the last state. > > A lot of unnecessary traffic to and load upon the remote database server. Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com > [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Paul Andrews > Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 1:25 PM > To: Flash Coders List > Subject: [Flashcoders] Design pattern? > > I am building an interface where the user updates the interface state by > clicking buttons. When a button is clicked it changes appearance to > indicate the state change. > > For the purposes of my question imagine a button that first shows "A" > then when clicked changes to "B", then "C" and then "D". Clicking when > the button shows "D" moves the state back to "A". > > It may be that the user clicks at "A" and keeps on clicking until they > reach "D" - so we have a series of state changes - A->B->C->D > > The only thing that needs to be known is that the final state is "D". So > I need to save the update to "D", but not the intermediate values. > > I am planning to run a timer that is reset on every click, so that when > the timer expires, the state is saved. The timer would only then restart > once clicking resumes. I would most likely also have a maximum "wait" too. > > Is there an alternative pattern for this? > > Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Nathan Mynarcik Interactive Web Developer nat...@mynarcik.com 254.749.2525 www.mynarcik.com _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
