Thanks to Tracy's earlier help, I was able to get at least the ugly
(i.e., my) version of HTTPService going (and I'll revisit it to
Tracy's specs one I figure this here problem out), but in order for
me to do it, I had to de-compartmentalize all my code. In other
words, I have originally been using an approach where each
major 'page' was a module loaded into a state of my main app, and
each major chunk of a module was made of a custom component (the
entire Tree, it's code, the little stuff; or the entire thumbnail
with all it's itemrendering in a HorizontalList...etc)- nice
separation of code, easy to understand in 6 months, and no 6,000 line
files. Also offered me a fighting chance in the future to figure out
model, control, and view separation.
But for me to get (for example) the tree component I made to
communicate with the thumbnail component, both housed in the
galleries module, I had to hardcode the components back into the
module (i.e., they are no longer components), so the module is now
one big-ass file that has no components, they are right in the file.
I can't go on like this, it's just too ugly. As a designer and a poet
wannabe, that sucks LOL.
But I can't for the life of me get things to talk amongst themselves,
say my module has 3 custom components doing their things...how do I
access something in one component from another component?
I became very afraid when I realized there doesn't seem to be any
kind of AS2/Flash dummy-movie approach - loadMovie ('thisthing') into
dummyclip instance 'whatever' and suddenly you just say
whatever.thisthing.stuff, and you've gained access to everything. In
other words, you can jump up and down as long as you know the scope.
I haven't a clue what the equivalent is in Flex 2.
It's very embarassing. I refuse to get through this weekend without
figuring it out. I'm not botching my gallery project by having 5-6
modules (as I DO want) but with thousands of hardcoded chunks within
them, when each module should by rights have nice piecemealed (sorry
for the word) custom components doing their thing from their own file
and from there communicating with each other. I need to use
components in the modules for my own sanity, and even worse, how do I
get one module to talk to another module's objects, functions, etc.?
In a word, you can't go from:
[EMAIL PROTECTED];
srv.send();
...strip it out into a component and then call the id of the parent,
i.e.:
[EMAIL PROTECTED];
thumbloader.srv.send();
...you get "Access of undefined property thumbloader" for your
troubles...
You can't back up a generation like you could with Flash. Or if you
can, I'm missing big bits of the puzzle.
Any suggestions, other than take a chill-pill?
Thanks guys,
Shawn
