Hi Friends, i am working on a dashboard application using flex and am stuck on a design issue. First a brief of what i have thought so far. As its a dashboard - pure flex (we have some pages like flex in html/ jsp etc as well)..its gonna be a flex project and application. Dashboard has different widgets for different functionality and user can display or close them as needed (just like igoogle). all the widgets need to have properties like drag/drop, minimize/ restore, close etc so they are extended from a baseclass which is again a extended from panel and drag drop etc capabilities added to it. now say i have 100 widgets and they can be grouped into 5 groups of 20 widgets each. depending on the user preference and user action - when user wants to add a widget - i initiate the class using getDefinitionByName(..) (classname i receive from server in xml file) and add to the dashboard. now if i will add all the widgets at compile time then all the 100 widgets will be in the swf file and the size may grow of the swf file and also as a 90% of the cases user will belong to a group and will have permission to only widgets of his group i will be downloading whole stuff on the user machine without ever being used - only some super user will have permissions to all the groups and can add widgets from across the groups.
i am looking for a mechanism where i can have a widgets (mxml) in different swf and load the swf when needed and instantiate classes and add to dashboard. i tried the http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flex/3/langref/flash/system/ApplicationDomain.html example but it works only if swf is from ActionScript project and does not work if the swf is created as flex project. i am just trying to explore a way if i can create 5 different swf files as libraries with 20 each mxml widgets and through dashboard load the required swf(s) and instantiate classes from those loaded swf and add to dashboard. can somebody suggest me how this problem can be approached. its still in prototye stage, so even a 180 degree turn from the approach mentioned above will be fine with me. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Flex India Community" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/flex_india?hl=en.
