Hi, I have a small application. A single view is declared in the main *mxml *file. This view loads some [remote] data upon initialisation.
I rejigged the application so that it loads in a config file first (this config file contains the url from which I should load the data). Initially the config file didn't finish loading in until after my view's * initialization* event had fired .. so the view attempted to load data but threw an error. To solve this I plumped for declaring my view in MXML, but changing its creationPolicy to "none", then calling createComponentsFromDescriptors() once my config had loaded. It works fine. I also realise there are various other ways to solve this (e.g. I could call my view's init() method manually, or I could add the view using ActionScript .... both being done after the config file had loaded). I wanted to post because I'm curious to find out how other people have been handling situations like this, and what arguments for/against your own methods you have become aware of (mainly because I think it could make a really useful blog post). So if you can spare a moment, I would appreciate the feedback. For example, do you feel that it's unacceptable to make data requests from within a View, even in a small app, and if so what would you change? All that kind of stuff is useful :) Cheers, Neil p.s. I haven't really run in to this before because I usually don't make data calls from inside views (but rather in Commands). As this is a small application I wonder if setting up a FrontController would be overkill though.
