Comments on: Flex Best Practices – Models, Views, and Controllers http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2009/08/18/flex-best-practices-models-views-and-controllers/ Blog on technology and software development typically around Adobe Flash, Flex, and AIR. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:21:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Wilson Silva http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2009/08/18/flex-best-practices-models-views-and-controllers/#comment-1640 Wilson Silva Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:21:07 +0000 http://unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/?p=677#comment-1640 Right now I have a view, a controller, a model and another class that handles URLRequests. When that class is requesting something and when that class finishes requesting something it should update a button label in the view ("Refreshing", "Refresh"). At the moment I'm learning Robotlegs to see if it helps improving my coding skills. Right now I have a view, a controller, a model and another class that handles URLRequests. When that class is requesting something and when that class finishes requesting something it should update a button label in the view (“Refreshing”, “Refresh”). At the moment I’m learning Robotlegs to see if it helps improving my coding skills.

]]> By: jonbcampos http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2009/08/18/flex-best-practices-models-views-and-controllers/#comment-1638 jonbcampos Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:26:44 +0000 http://unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/?p=677#comment-1638 @Wilson can you not just have one controller per view? Usually those are 1 to 1. @Wilson can you not just have one controller per view? Usually those are 1 to 1.

]]> By: Wilson Silva http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2009/08/18/flex-best-practices-models-views-and-controllers/#comment-1637 Wilson Silva Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:25:20 +0000 http://unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/?p=677#comment-1637 Thanks. I will look deeper at Robotlegs. What do you recommend if more than one controller needs to access the view? I have a lot of labels that need to be changed and right now I have functions on the controller to change the view but that violates your tutorial since they are public... Thanks. I will look deeper at Robotlegs. What do you recommend if more than one controller needs to access the view? I have a lot of labels that need to be changed and right now I have functions on the controller to change the view but that violates your tutorial since they are public…

]]> By: jonbcampos http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2009/08/18/flex-best-practices-models-views-and-controllers/#comment-1636 jonbcampos Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:59:51 +0000 http://unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/?p=677#comment-1636 @Wilson I created this post as an example of how MVC could work with Flex/AS. I would recommend checking out Robotlegs to see how I really do it. If I were to expand on this example I'd probably make my models singletons and then just access those as necessary. Or have one singleton hold all my models. Something like that. Then all the controllers are directly accessing the central model. @Wilson I created this post as an example of how MVC could work with Flex/AS. I would recommend checking out Robotlegs to see how I really do it.

If I were to expand on this example I’d probably make my models singletons and then just access those as necessary. Or have one singleton hold all my models. Something like that. Then all the controllers are directly accessing the central model.

]]> By: Nithil Jose http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2009/08/18/flex-best-practices-models-views-and-controllers/#comment-1445 Nithil Jose Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:27:59 +0000 http://unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/?p=677#comment-1445 Hi Jonathan, Thanks for a great post. I tried a lot of tutorials to study MVC or any other framework Theoretically i was able to understand the concepts but practically I failed. But your post about MVC with simple example help me to try for my new mobile project Its very nice to code in this way and lot of reusable code Lot of thanks Nithil Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for a great post. I tried a lot of tutorials to study MVC or any other framework
Theoretically i was able to understand the concepts but practically I failed.
But your post about MVC with simple example help me to try for my new mobile project
Its very nice to code in this way and lot of reusable code

Lot of thanks
Nithil

]]> By: Eric http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2009/08/18/flex-best-practices-models-views-and-controllers/#comment-1283 Eric Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:09:12 +0000 http://unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/?p=677#comment-1283 Hi Jonathan, This is a brilliant example and it helped me a lot. I want to develop according to the MVC(maybe MVCS) approach without having to use any specific framework. So far I modified it to handle RPC(AMF) instead of HTTP comm. I am having a bigger problem now. Let's say in your main XML file (src) your remove every graphical elements and put them into an mxml component(let's call it: myview). You then just have to call that component to be shown on the screen. How would you go about 'linking' a change in the model to its corresponding representation inside the custom component? I also very much liked your best practices for Events. Keep them coming, your explanations are clear, well written and they are not dumbed down or overly complicated which probably make them useful to many people. Hi Jonathan,
This is a brilliant example and it helped me a lot. I want to develop according to the MVC(maybe MVCS) approach without having to use any specific framework. So far I modified it to handle RPC(AMF) instead of HTTP comm. I am having a bigger problem now. Let’s say in your main XML file (src) your remove every graphical elements and put them into an mxml component(let’s call it: myview). You then just have to call that component to be shown on the screen. How would you go about ‘linking’ a change in the model to its corresponding representation inside the custom component? I also very much liked your best practices for Events. Keep them coming, your explanations are clear, well written and they are not dumbed down or overly complicated which probably make them useful to many people.

]]> By: Marco Pallotta http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2009/08/18/flex-best-practices-models-views-and-controllers/#comment-1281 Marco Pallotta Sat, 13 Aug 2011 02:06:40 +0000 http://unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/?p=677#comment-1281 Great work Jonathan! Very nicely articulated and also as you stated, agnostic. Great work Jonathan! Very nicely articulated and also as you stated, agnostic.

]]> By: Dustin http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2009/08/18/flex-best-practices-models-views-and-controllers/#comment-1202 Dustin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:32:07 +0000 http://unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/?p=677#comment-1202 Specifically the MVP Passive View pattern. Specifically the MVP Passive View pattern.

]]> By: Dustin http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2009/08/18/flex-best-practices-models-views-and-controllers/#comment-1201 Dustin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:30:35 +0000 http://unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/?p=677#comment-1201 Isn't this the Model View Presenter (MVP) pattern? Isn’t this the Model View Presenter (MVP) pattern?

]]> By: Mate guy http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2009/08/18/flex-best-practices-models-views-and-controllers/#comment-968 Mate guy Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:08:26 +0000 http://unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/?p=677#comment-968 Mate rocks. Mate rocks.

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