Michael, Dimitrios, Thanks for your input - I'm already doing something like this for the switching between the different views, but it is within a given view itself I need to have change of state after successful submission, and require some additional steps to be done. Like 1) Upload file and related data, 2) Preview Results 3) Approve.
My view needs to know when the form submission has succeeded and then trigger the next appropriate step. Per the docs, it seems that the Command classes can implement Iresponder - perhaps that is the way to go. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Ritchie Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 2:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Cairngorm Architecture Question - How to Implement a Workflow What I would do is in the successful result of the command, update a variable in the model. Bind the variable of the model to a view stack that monitors changes to the model. Upon successful form submission and return from the server, update the model variable, the view will then change to show the view stack current view: Some ruff code: private function getView( state : String ) : Container { if( model.workflowState == ModelLocator.STATE_FORM ){ return formview; } else if (model.workflowState == ModelLocator.STATE_RESULTS){ return resultview } else { return defaultview; } } <mx:ViewStack selectedChild="{getView(model.workflowState)}"> <mx:Canvas id="formtview" width="100%" height="100%"/> <mx:Canvas id="resultview" width="100%" height="100%"/> <mx:Canvas id="defaultview" width="100%" height="100%"/> </mx:ViewStack> Take a look at this post by Alex Uhlmann for full example: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/auhlmann/archives/2006/07/cairngorm_2_for_ 1.cfm Michael Ritchie AOL Xdrive --- In [email protected], "Battershall, Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got an app consisting of several discrete views (MXML components) > performing different admin functions. > > One of the components has the user submit a form, after which I'm > going to have the user review the results before finalizing > (approving) the submission. > > I'm interested in anyone's feedback on the best way to approach this. > If I fire off a Cairngorm Event/Command to do the submission, how do I > return control back to the view that fired the event after the > submission is complete so that it can perform the next step in the > process (approval)? Seems like a total kludge to pass a reference to > the view with the event I'm firing. It also seems ridiculous to > implement logic at the ModelLocator level. > > Currently, I'm leaning toward having my Command class extend > EventDispatcher and fire off a completion event which is listened for > by the view, which then starts the approval step, which then fires off > its own event/command class. My view needs to respond to the current > step completed - question is the best, cleanest way to implement this. > > Jeff Battershall > Application Architect > Dow Jones Indexes > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (609) 520-5637 (p) > (484) 477-9900 (c) > -- 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
