We have been developing a fairly large application using Flex 1.5 and the Cairngorm framework, and have recently run across what could be a large roadblock. Our application has many sub-applications the user can choose to run from a menu in the main application. To implement this we are dynamically creating the children the user selects in a view stack. All of these sub-applications rely on a particular search screen that allows the user to find a particular person in our database. The problem is that the sub-applications are bound to the selection the user makes in the search screen, and are all reacting to the same events (which are broadcast from the search screen). We would like the search screens to function as separate instances. For example, if I broadcast a change event from the search screen, all of the open sub-applications will catch the event and change all of their displayed information to reflect that of the most recently selected person. Our problem appears to stem from the way the EventBroadcaster and FrontController are designed. All events are broadcast in the same EventBroadcaster using the getInstance() method, thus everything is listening for everything.
Can anyone who is familiar with the intricacies of Cairngorm propose a way to deal with this problem? We would like to be able to return the information about the selected person only to the sub-application that invoked the search screen. Perhaps it is not possible to do this using Cairngorm, and we would appreciate knowing that, too. If anyone has a different/better solution, we'd love to hear about it. Thanks in advance. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
