Comments on: Flex Chronicles #21: Faceless Children in Cairngorm 2

By: Ethan

Ethan — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:52:05 +0000

Hi,

I was bored the other day and decided that I wanted to play around with the Freestyle XL application. After searching through my drive I found that I no longer had it. No problem, I’ll just download it again from Jesse’s site. Hmm… no longer there. No problem, I’ll just google for it. What…. no one has it!!

Is there a reason for this? Are you ‘pulling’ it from the shelves? If I’m just trippin’, I apologize and would appreciate a link or a way to redownload your fine app.

Thanks.

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 05:54:39 +0000

Darron already posted a solution to that problem. To me, popups were too much of an edge case to really justify this as a big problem, but better to make standards that work for everyone than having to workaround some weird reason.

By: Clint Modien

Clint Modien — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:29:38 +0000

The reason they reintroduced the EventBroadcaster is because they were using the mx.core.Application.application to dispatch events to the FrontController which didn’t work for popups… it looked like this
Stage
|
System Manager
| |
Application Popup

You can see why dispatching an event form a popup wouldn’t work.. it never makes it to the Application object and since the FrontController was listening only to the Application the event wasn’t being picked up.

Reintroducing the CairngormEventDispatcher as a central event pipe that everything dispatches to and the Controller listens on… eliminates this problem.

By: Mattias

Mattias — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 21:42:03 +0000

Hey,

We have just started a flexforum at http://www.flexforum.org. We will do the best to answer all questions. Just wanted to tell. It would be fun to have a good forum for all us flexlovers =) Please join!

All the best
Mattias

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 21:33:13 +0000

Yeah, picked this up on MXNA this morning. At the time of this writing, I'm using the beta 3 build that Cairngorm 2 was made for. Hrm... I agree with their reasonaing, though. Coupling to DisplayObject's only really gained you performance benefits, and most people aren't intending to cancel events propgated with the intent to fire off commands anyway. It's nice too, because it's more explicit what you are doing. With strong-typing, I doubt the performance is that big of a deal either.