Re: [flexcoders] Re: Question about Best Practices for Applications with many views using Cairngorm

2008-09-01 Thread Douglas Knudsen
personally, I leave States to component level 'dynamic Flexi-magik' and use Viewstacks for major view changes. Viewstacks just seem more appropriate for major view changes. States I leave to component changes, eg a edit vs view in a form or something like that. IIRC, States actually are more com

[flexcoders] Re: Question about Best Practices for Applications with many views using Cairngorm

2008-09-01 Thread Justin J. Moses
I think that's a fair point you've made and I can't understand why the constants are in the model either in the Cairngorm Store. Seems to me like there should be a Singleton related to the view holding the list of available views to switch between. But I'm no Cairngorm expert either :P justin

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Question about Best Practices for Applications with many views using Cairngorm

2008-09-01 Thread Paul Andrews
x27;s helpful. Paul - Original Message - From: "Justin J. Moses" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:33 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Question about Best Practices for Applications with many views using Cairngorm > Paul, > > If you

[flexcoders] Re: Question about Best Practices for Applications with many views using Cairngorm

2008-09-01 Thread Justin J. Moses
Paul, If you're trying to understand Cairngorm by reading the docs and going through the Cairngorm Store demo, you'll notice that the views are toggled via constants in the model: eg. if( model.workflowState == ShopModelLocator.VIEWING_PRODUCTS_IN_THUMBNAILS ) ... so the various views or d

[flexcoders] Re: Question about Best Practices for Applications with many views using Cairngorm

2008-09-01 Thread Justin J. Moses
OK, I see what you're saying. I'm actually fairly new to Cairngorm, so I'd be interested in what others have to say about this... Personally, in my app, I assigned modules to user roles, and used the class name of each module as the name of the that contains it. This seems like it might still be c

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Question about Best Practices for Applications with many views using Cairngorm

2008-09-01 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "j301c" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 6:56 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Question about Best Practices for Applications with many views using Cairngorm >I agree that states are probably a much better option than v

[flexcoders] Re: Question about Best Practices for Applications with many views using Cairngorm

2008-09-01 Thread j301c
I agree that states are probably a much better option than viewstacks because they are more dynamic. I probably will consider doing this as I move along for this reason. I guess I was just wondering if there was a better way than using constants in the modellocator to bind what state, or sele

[flexcoders] Re: Question about Best Practices for Applications with many views using Cairngorm

2008-08-31 Thread Justin J. Moses
For your application, have you considered separating your views within states, and only populate them on the "EnterState" event? You could employ modules that load up on that event, rather than preloading them with components. The advantage of using states is that when your user comes back to ope