[flexcoders] Help on Visual Design, Graphic Designers, Firms, Consultants
Hi All, We are building an enterprise Flex app and it is time to make this thing look good. The UI is in various states of completion and some areas are not designed. We basically need: - icons - visual design framework and style guide What are people's experiences in the Visual Design aspects of their flex projects? Ideally we can find a contractor or firm that can actually edit CSS files. But somehow I think this is unlikely. Should we go with a firm of find some random designer people? What deliverables can we expect? Will any designers know how to deal with Flex and CSS? Thanks
[flexcoders] Chaining IResponders in a remote call via AsyncToken.addResponder
For any remote call (which is how all real work is done in our app) there are two types of things that need to happen: - Domain logic: updating the model and other stuff related to the domain / data - View logic: displaying messages, showing and hiding progress indicators etc. I was thinking of having a responder to handle the Domain logic, and one for view logic. Both basically need to know what happened in any remote call. So I chain them such that the View asks the Domain Model to do some domain logic. In the low level remote service call code we add these two responders with the Domain Responder first. Then the call happens, and it should fire the domain responder then the view responder. Either one could send notifications or whatever if there are other interested parties. So questions are: - Anyone have experience with this kind of pattern? - Is this a horrible or good idea?
[flexcoders] Re: what is a reliable way to know when your component is re-displayed
So far I have been able to rely on the implicit set thing(thing : Thing) as the init for a given component. Seems a strange thing to rely on though. Would like some sort of onPaint or onDisplay event. Keeping track of what is null and what isn't is a pain sometimes.
[flexcoders] what is a reliable way to know when your component is re-displayed
What is a reliable way to know when your component is displayed? The show event is only called when a component goes from visible=false to true. The creationComplete event is only once. My problem is I have various views (forms basically) nested in all sorts of crazy viewstacks and so on, and I just want them to initialize themselves when they are shown. Problem is I can't really just drive them from outside when I show them, cause they always seem null, or parts of them are when I make them visible (usually by some viewstack change) IE defered instantiation issues. I would like the component to throw an event when it is displayed and clear it self out, re-fetch data, etc, but I don't see a good event.
[flexcoders] Looking for Flex consulting help. Any tips, experiences, etc?
I work for a startup and we are in need of extra Flex muscle. Any advise in this area? So far the responses from our craigslist add have been all over the place, from total designers, to outsourcing firms, to recruiters. We basically need OO programmers that know Flex. Is that going to be hard to find. We are in SF/Bay area. Is it worth the money to go with one of the bigger consulting firms, or is it better to try and find some local person? Any idea what rates people charge?
[flexcoders] Generating AS3 code from Java
Hi, I am using a Flex UI talking to a Blaze DS / Java backend. The sever has a set of DTO objects used for talking to Flex and other web services. Is there any open source tools out there to generate the AS3 code from Java? This should be a fairly easy program to write using reflection, but someone must have done it before.
