Hi Seona, Let's start by taking a deep breath and don't freak out. Ok, wheeew!
Mate is a little different than typical MVC; in that it seperates the model into managers and presentation models (a manager holds data and a presentation model holds an instance of the needed data and controls constituant views). Let me elaborate a little, in that these two factions of the model are also "smart" models; they don't just sit by and hold data., they can also manipulate data/state as well. Yes, both managers and presentation models are singletons; thus they persist. If you place your user data in a userManager, then you can easily inject that data into whatever object you want, be it a view or a presentation model, via a map. I know that there aren't a lot of mate examples out there yet. But, please be patient; more are coming...... -TH --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Seona Bellamy <se...@...> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I'm not sure that the subject line is all that clear, but I honestly can't > think of how best to express it. My brain's just really tied in a knot over > this one. Bear with me for a moment and I'll try and explain where I'm > coming from and what I'm trying to do. > > I'm pretty new to Flex as a whole, and have been trying to rework an > existing app into the Mate framework. The original app was built when both > myself and the other developer were just learning Flex (actually, we learned > as we went along) and it quickly spiralled out of control into this complete > nightmare of code. It's been decided that Mate is going to be our framework > of choice for future Flex development, so I decided to start trying to > rebuild our app in it as a learning exercise. > > I used the Cafe Townsend example ( > http://mate.asfusion.com/page/examples/cafe-townsend) as a basis, and > started off. So far so good - I managed to build a login interface, get the > login function to call a CFC that looks up the details in the DB, and pass > the user off to the main interface if they were in the DB. My problem now > comes when I try to populate the main interface with the user's data. This > would involve making more calls to other CFCs, passing them the user's ID, > and getting back the records that are associated with the current user. > > The Cafe Townsend example didn't really help much with this, since once > you're logged in you're logged in and it doesn't really do anything else > with that information. I hunted around a bit and decided that the closest I > could find to something that might do what I need is a Model and Injectors. > The Weather Widget example ( > http://mate.asfusion.com/page/examples/weather-widget) works with this, and > I tried working it into what I had, but I suspect I've tied myself in a bit > of a knot. Despite the fact that FlexBuilder is not flagging any errors, the > app crashes the browser every time to try to run it. So I'm obviously doing > something wrong. I just can't figure out what. > > So to summarise: how do I go about storing some data in such a way that it > will be accessible to other parts of my application? For example, the user > data that is brought back by an event in the MainEventMap needs to be > visible to events in the UserEventMap. > > > For that matter, are there any other decent examples out there besides the > ones on the Mate website? > > Cheers, > > Seona. >
