Modular Robotlegs
WTF is a Modular?
Modular programming is a versatile technique for separating an application into smaller parts. Each module is effectively an application and can be developed independently from one another. In a typical modular application you will have a Shell that is loaded initially. The Shell will manage the loading of modules and displaying their contents. Flex modules can be visual components that extend the Module class, but this is certainly not the extent of what can be considered a module.
Robotlegs is well suited for modular application development. Each Context is encapsulated and provides its own internal method for communication. A barrier to writing modular applications thus far with Robotlegs is that while these Context objects can exist in abundance in an application, they aren't very useful from a modular standpoint unless they can communicate with one another. As with many things within the Robotlegs eco-system, this is best accomplished through the development of a utility that can be used in conjunction with the core framework to provide the specific functionality that we are looking for. There has been some good work done in this area, but with Robotlegs 1.1 and more specifically the 1.5 release of the default Dependency Injection provider SwiftSuspenders, we have been equipped with better tools to accomplish modular contexts in a Robotlegs application in a clean effective manner.
SuperPanelPlus: Resizable Flex Panel Component with Accessible Styling
The SuperPanel is an excellent component created by Wietse Veenstra. The styling is all hard-coded, and I need to be able to change this. It also hard-codes the event that is triggered on close, and I wanted to be able to control this. So I added the appropriate meta-tags and properties to enable these options. Here is the result, link to the source is at the bottom:
Using the Senocular AS3 TransformTool in Flex
Hey,I am so interested about that you had ever used the ‘TransformTool’ library in your Flex project. But there is little examples showing how to use it in flex, Would you please share some example about how to use ‘TransformTool’ in Flex? I have tried as such a way:
but it failed at line
canvas.addChild(defaultTool);
Can you give any hints? Thanks.
Like most pure AS3 display classes, the TransformTool needs to be added to a UIComponent wrapper to function properly in Flex.
Christian Cantrell's ever-growing selection of useful Actionscript 3/AIR libraries.
Here's the full list of what he has on Google Code.
The CoreLib is essential, but he's been busy writing useful libraries for AIR. I've used the notification library, which has some great features and makes notifications on the desktop sensible. The exchange library is interesting, for sure. They are all worth checking out.
There are also a number of interesting example applications using AIR, including a motion detection application, an Amazon S3 interface, a screen saver, and an MS Exchange calendar.
KitchenSync – open-source Actionscript 3 tweening and timing animation library
Mims Wright has released an open-source animation library for Actionscript 3. This has a lot of promise. From the author:
KitchenSync was designed for developers who want a smart way to handle animation or other time-based functionality with code. Written from the ground up in ActionScript 3.0, KitchenSync relies on smart object-oriented architecture rather than complicated shorthand. It includes a number of features and shortcuts, such as the clone() method, that save effort for developers. KitchenSync makes extensive use of events and informative runtime errors and is quite flexible when it comes to extending the functionality.
This philosophy makes me think that KitchenSync will fit in nicely with pureMVC.
