The view can hold an array of other views, when the main view is told to
build by the controller, it iterates through the array to tell the other
view instances or whatever. Shouldn't be hard to implement. My method
does not depend on a single view, it's really just how you want to
structure it. It will also allow the controller to tell a particular
view to build, i.e.:
//in the controller:
private function onSomething(event:Event):void
{
if(somethingSpecial) _mvc.view.mySpecialView.build();
}
Jason Merrill
Bank of America Global Learning
Learning & Performance Soluions
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bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:05 PM
To: Flash Coders List
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Using MVC for a site framework
very cool jason - thanks
just a quick question - this setup works perfectly where the number of
views
is known, but how would you implement that with an unknown amount of
views?
or is this the setup for the root view with all other views being
add()ed to
it?
thanks mate
a
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Merrill, Jason <
[email protected]> wrote:
> This is my opinion, I'm sure others will have their own that may
differ
> (and probably recommend you check out some frameworks - though that
can
> be a lot to tackle) : the controller would listen to the model to
know
> when the data is ready and available. It would then tell the view to
> start building. The main class would hold the references to the
model,
> view, controller, but would not command any classes to do anything
> really. You could have the view listen to the model as well and skip
> the controller doing it, but I like the view to be more decoupled than
> that. I usually try and keep most listeners in the controller where
> possible, though many end up in the view, depending on the situation.
I
> never have listeners in the model though, only events that are
> dispatched.
>
> I actually have the model start and do it's own XML loading, but you
> could have the controller tell it to do that, just seems like an
> unnecessary step.
>
> Another thing I do is have a main class called MVC that extends Sprite
> or DisplayObject which initializes the model, view, controller, in
> order, dispatches an event when all three are initialized, and
provides
> access to each via a singleton implementation. It allows me to access
> any part of a model, view, controller from any other part just by
> calling MVC.instance. Then it's just var _mvc:MVC = MVC.instancel;
then
> _mvc.model.myprop or _mvc.view.update() or whatever. That class looks
> like this:
>
> package mvc
> {
> import events.MVCEvent;
> import events.view.ViewEvent;
> import events.controller.ControllerEvent;
> import events.model.ModelEvent;
> import mvc.controller.Controller;
> import mvc.model.Model;
> import mvc.view.View;
> import flash.display.Sprite;
> /**
> * ...
> * @author Jason Merrill - Bank of America
> */
> public class MVC extends Sprite
> {
> public var view:View;
> public var model:Model;
> public var controller:Controller;
>
> private static var _instance:MVC;
>
> public function MVC()
> {
> if ( _instance != null )
> {
> throw new Error( "Only one MVC instance should be
> instantiated. Use MVC.instance instead." );
> }
> else
> {
> _instance = this;
> }
> }
>
> public function initialize():void
> {
> model = new Model();
> view = new View();
> controller = new Controller();
>
> model.addEventListener(ModelEvent.INITIALIZED,
> onModelInitialized);
>
> controller.addEventListener(ControllerEvent.INITIALIZED,
> onControllerInitialized);
> view.addEventListener(ViewEvent.INITIALIZED,
> onViewInitialized);
>
> model.initialize();
> }
>
> private function
> onModelInitialized(event:ModelEvent):void
> {
>
> model.removeEventListener(ModelEvent.INITIALIZED, onModelInitialized);
> view.initialize();
> }
>
> private function
onViewInitialized(event:ViewEvent):void
> {
> addChild(view);
> view.removeEventListener(ViewEvent.INITIALIZED,
> onViewInitialized);
> controller.initialize();
> }
>
> private function
> onControllerInitialized(event:ControllerEvent):void
> {
>
> controller.removeEventListener(ControllerEvent.INITIALIZED,
> onControllerInitialized);
> dispatchEvent(new
> MVCEvent(MVCEvent.INITIALIZED));
> }
>
> public static function get instance():MVC
> {
> if ( _instance == null )
> {
> throw new Error( "MVC singleton instance not created
> yet." );
> }
> return _instance;
> }
> }
>
> }
>
>
> Jason Merrill
>
> Bank of America Global Learning
> Learning & Performance Soluions
>
> Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community and visit our
> Instructional Technology Design Blog
> (note: these are for Bank of America employees only)
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
allandt
> bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:09 AM
> To: Flash Coders List
> Subject: [Flashcoders] Using MVC for a site framework
>
> Hi guys
>
> I'm currently feeling my way through the o'reilly design patterns book
> and
> am going through the mvc design pattern as a way of dealing with
> (micro)site
> structures - dealing with opening and closing pages, loading data etc
> but i
> have a couple of questions that you guys will probably be able to
> answer...
>
> i have a config xml file that points to the data xml, site css and
> fonts.swf. I take it that the controller should have the
responsibility
> of
> loading those files and storing the results in the model. However if i
> include the site structure in the data xml as i would usually do,
which
> part
> of the triad should be instantiating the views to create the pages?
The
> book
> is set up that the Main.as class would be instantiating the views and
> creating the site structure but that doesn't fit if the controller is
> loading the xml files into the model.
>
> I would guess that the controller would trawl the xml and instantiate
> the
> page views and add them to the model but i'm not 100% on this
>
> I'd really appreciate your time on this matter as I'd like to build a
> set of
> classes that work with more than one project
>
> thanks
> a
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