Comments on: Robotlegs Image Gallery Example using AS3-Signals and the Presentation Model

By: Hrithik Shah

Hrithik Shah — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:52:00 +0000

Thanks for the great article it really helps me in understanding as3 signals. Finally mine search ends here. Thanks once again.

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By: Samuel Tilly

Samuel Tilly — Fri, 06 May 2011 14:19:41 +0000

I am a bit confused by this, i have been developing a huge application for a while and recently started to look into using the MVC model when doing a complete rewrite of this application. The only previous MVC experience that i have is from CakePHP, the thing i don't get is really the structure of things here, i started going through the guides over at robotlegs.org and was a bit confused about the mediator stuff, i was afraid it would be an issue later on in my project so i started looking at implementing signals into robotlegs but i don't really understand the structure of this code.

Why is modules in .vo and what is the real advantage of using interfaces for each model?

Why is the LoadGalleryCommand in controllers? maby just the name confuses me here.

Is there a way of having the service loading only if views depending on it is mapped in the context? without ApplicationStartSignal?

Can signals me automatically added to context the same way views are?

Sorry for the novice questions and thanks for this great article!

By: Sam Rivello

Sam Rivello — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:57:00 +0000

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By: Hebejin

Hebejin — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:53:20 +0000

good article, it is worth to having a good read.

By: flash gallery

flash gallery — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:55:02 +0000

Robotlegs and AS3 signals are when combined together, works great.Both fixes object-oriented principles to implement its goals. Signals is very well automated dependency injection. Combining the signals and Robotlegs you can turn off the flash events within your application layer.

By: Jb

Jb — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:22:35 +0000

Thanks Joel for this example.. Really useful and a good implementation of PM with Robotlegs.

I got a question concerning the GalleryImageThumbnailItemRenderer component.
You choose to dispatch the ImageSelectedSignal in the click of a thumbnail.
I understand by this way, you can advise the other PM (GalleryViewPresentationModel) to update the preview. But regarding the PM mind, does it was preferable to have a function in the PM (GalleryThumbnailsPresentationModel) like changeImageSelected and call it directly from the component (model.changeImageSelected(String)) who perform the signal dispatch and the updateImageSelectionState ?
In this way your view should be totaly passive.

What do you think ?

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By: Elad Elrom

Elad Elrom — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:09:57 +0000

Awesome times last night on RIARadio, Great post thanks Joel. To add to this example I created an implementation of RobotLegs using the Presentation Model that access entire component's events lifecycle using the passive view:
http://elromdesign.com/blog/2010/01/23/robotleg...

By: Elad Elrom

Elad Elrom — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:09:57 +0000

By: Joel Hooks

Joel Hooks — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:02:56 +0000

sorry, my bad. I modified it to use the SignalsCommandMap lib I am working on. http://github.com/joelhooks/signals-extensions-...