Comments on: Simplified Cairngorm, Easy MVC for Adobe Flex

By: Ashim S

Ashim S — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:14:39 +0000

great post… really helpful !!

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:49:07 +0000

Jon,

Still having issues with when the controller is handling events correctly or not. I use the creationComplete or addedToStage events inside the controller to initialize the listeners. Inside my main app I use the creationComplete to dispatch a certain event (which should be handled by the controller). It never reaches the controller it seems? If I use a button’s click handler to fire that same event moments later, it is handled correctly. What am i missing here? It seems the controller is initted too late. But if I add trace statements to the controller and creationComplete of the mainview, it does trace it’s init first and dispatch after…. tracing the systemManager in the init of the controller says it’s NOT null…I’m fresh out of ideas here…

Ben

By: Claire, A Simple MVC for Adobe Air and Flex - Kerkness.ca

Claire, A Simple MVC for Adobe Air and Flex - Kerkness.ca — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:59:48 +0000

[...] or Adobe Air applications using MVC design patterns. Claire’s approach to MVC is based on a simplified Cairngorm architecture called Easy MVC and has been optimized to work with the Kerkness PHP framework. It is [...]

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:12:58 +0000

@Jonecir

There is nothing to download with EasyMVC it is simply a process the classes that need to be setup (controller) can easily be cut and pasted from the blog.. That’s about it.

Regards,

Jon

By: Jonecir

Jonecir — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:43:53 +0000

Hi, where can I download this EasyMvc?

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:00:12 +0000

Lo all,

Great explanations on this site. Been trying out the EasyMVC method, coming from Cairngorm, and I like it a lot. I ran into one problem though and I hope that posting it here will help me fix it.

I let the controller extend UIComponent. Add it and every event I dispatch runs fine. E.g. clicking a button fires a command, no problems there.
Where it goes wrong is when i wanted to fire a e.g. StartApplicationEvent directly after my main view component fires it’s ‘creationComplete’. What happens then is that the systemManager does not receive the event. It just does nothing. The events on the buttons work, because they get dispatched later on.

What I don’t get is, that the controller is initted BEFORE i use the creationComplete to dispatch the AppStart event. putting a trace(systemManager) just before that dispatch does not return null. But still the event doesn’t reach the controller :S.

Any ideas?

Tnx, Ben

By: Austin

Austin — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:31:01 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial. I’ve been working with Flex for a few months and I like the end results of a Flex application, but writing well designed code has always been a challenge. This framework looks like something that will make my code a little more robust.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:50:11 +0000

Very useful article. Thanks!

By: venkat

venkat — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:16:34 +0000

Hi ,

I use a similar approach as explained here

http://techmytongue.blogspot.com/2008/08/mvc-with-flex.html

Thanks,
Venkat

By: Skeuds

Skeuds — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:50:21 +0000

Hi, Thank you for this good example. I think you have just forget a line for instantiate the instance in your ChatModel class :
If the instance is null you must instantiate like “instance = this” else it’s doesn’t work.

Sorry for my bad English ^^.

Your website is really usefull.