RE: [Flashcoders] Question about SWC elements for use in Flex

2011-09-21 Thread jchilcott
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RE: [Flashcoders] Question about SWC elements for use in Flex

2011-09-21 Thread jchilcott
(I hate webmail apps... resent) addElement() is meant for display objects that extend the SpriteVisualElement class, which are a part of the Flex libraries. What you need to do if you want to use Sphere as you have made it, is to create a wrapper display object that extends SpriteVisualElement and

RE: [Flashcoders] Question about SWC elements for use in Flex

2011-09-21 Thread jchilcott
If you don't need to use Flex, then it's all good. However, if Flex is required, it's not really an arduous task to create a wrapper. We do this this for various sprites developed in FLA's to maintain reuseability throughout. jord Original Message Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Ques

RE: [Flashcoders] Fwd: MVC

2012-02-16 Thread jchilcott
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RE: [Flashcoders] Fwd: MVC

2012-02-16 Thread jchilcott
(UGH... I hate RTF Web editors) RobotLegs is not a big framework at all. In comparison with most of the other frameworks out there, it's overhead is far far less than ones like Cairngorm, Spring and Parsley. Even compared to Mate and SWIZ (which are very small to begin with), then RobotLegs is lig

RE: [Flashcoders] MVC style Correction

2012-02-16 Thread jchilcott
Models shouldn't have any knowledge of each other or anything outside of themselves. The controller should usually be the first area to set up. Everything else is set up and managed by the controller (views, models, services). Usually, there will be one central controller that handles your main pr