Re: [flexcoders] Components best practices for a newb

2007-10-25 Thread Derrick Anderson
sounds like you need a framework, check out cairngorm or pureMVC ( puremvc.org), they have lots of tutorials and example apps. On 10/25/07, Phill B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm putting together my first Flex app and need some help. I have all > my code in one mxml file and it is getting h

RE: [flexcoders] Components best practices for a newb

2007-10-25 Thread Dimitrios Gianninas
You are looking for an architecture :) One of the most popular for Flex is Cairngorm, check it out here: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Cairngorm But yes, you should definily break things out into their own components, the smaller the better, it will help you manage code, more easily add

RE: [flexcoders] Components best practices for a newb

2007-10-25 Thread Tianzhen Lin
great workflow and visual documentation. - Tangent From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dimitrios Gianninas Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:43 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Components best practices for a newb

Re: [flexcoders] Components best practices for a newb

2007-10-25 Thread Jon Bradley
Even then... I believe it should be noted that Cairngorm is more than just an MVC architecture. There are a variety of patterns involved in using the framework, not the least of which is MVC. Even then, i don't think it really has a fully qualified MVC pattern because there are no specific

Re: [flexcoders] Components best practices for a newb

2007-10-25 Thread Jon Bradley
On Oct 25, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Jon Bradley wrote: Even then... I believe it should be noted that Cairngorm is more than just an MVC architecture. There are a variety of patterns involved in using the framework, not the least of which is MVC. Even then, i don't think it really has a fully qua

Re: [flexcoders] Components best practices for a newb

2007-10-25 Thread Derrick Anderson
i have to say, if your entire application is currently in one mxml file- i'm betting it's not a 'huge' application by any means- if that's the case and you want to organize your code into a framework of some sort, i would put my money on puremvc, i've been down that road and cairngorm was way overk