Mate is not using Singleton but "class-caching" if I understood well.
Romu Tim Hoff wrote: > > > > 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 > <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.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 > <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 > <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. > > > >
