Comments for Alain Hufkens

Comment on Flex 4: Create a simple Unit Test in Flash Builder by Abhilash Nagar

Abhilash Nagar — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:08:12 +0000

A very nice code examples.Thanks.I want to know how to create test cases for ApplicationFacade and Mediators.

Comment on Loading remote swf files in AIR by Alain

Alain — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:54:30 +0000

Thanks for the info.
I updated the link in the article.

Alain

Comment on Loading remote swf files in AIR by Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:42:27 +0000

The link to the first article is broken. Here is an updated one. Thanks for the help! http://blogs.adobe.com/emalasky/2008/04/remote_plugins.html

Comment on How to restart an AIR application from code by Aanoud

Aanoud — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:59:55 +0000

Hi I’m afraid with air 2.0 it only works on osx, not anymore on windows…
I Need real solid cross platform solution for this.

Any clues?

tnx,

Arnoud

Comment on How to restart an AIR application from code by Patrick Gates

Patrick Gates — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:11:35 +0000

If this doesn’t work, you can always encompass all your code in an init() function and then call it

Comment on Model-View-ViewModel in Silverlight and Flex by Alain

Alain — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:05:50 +0000

Thanx for the comments, and I agree with you that you better use dependency injection and interfaces to connect your View and the ViewModel. In Silverlight I usually create a ViewModelLocator, that is responsible for creating the ViewModels. These can be created with or without dependency injection. And to send back messages from the View to the ViewModel, this can be done through the Command pattern.

However, this was a very simple demo. And I didn’t want to overarchitect the demo. It served as a example to see if some practices from Silverlight could work also in Flex.

Alain

Comment on Model-View-ViewModel in Silverlight and Flex by Martin

Martin — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:57:27 +0000

The purpose of the Presentation Model pattern is to capture state and behaviour of Presentation independently of the View.

What this essentially means is that the View should be as oblivious to your Model, as the Model is oblivious to the View. It provides a surface of abstraction from the point of a View and a Model, and one could think of it as a kind of interface on steroids.

As an example, if we write a hotel booking application, the abstract interface (Presentation) – that is interactivity and perceivable state; user I/O – is defined separately. We may then develop several concrete projections (Views) that all use this interface, be it a CLI, desktop GUI or web application.

The Flex example provided in this article violates the fundamental idea of the Presentation Model pattern in that the View is hardwired to the Model.

On a side note, a canonical implementation of Presentation Model should decouple the the View from the ViewModel, and the ViewModel from the Model as well. This can be achieved by using interfaces and dependency injection, to name one approach.

Cheers!

Comment on Playing with Maven & NativeProcess API in AIR 2.0 by Matt

Matt — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:56:15 +0000

I completed my proof-of-concept. Its very similar to yours, but its made for running Ant targets. Take a peek: http://blog.nobien.net/2010/06/16/proof-of-concept-a-simple-ui-for-running-ant-targets-built-with-adobe-air-2-0/

Comment on Playing with Maven & NativeProcess API in AIR 2.0 by Alain

Alain — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:17:33 +0000

The most important issue was resolved (see updated blog). I suppose that there are solutions for the other issues as well, but I don’t seem to have time to continue this project. But if you need any help, I am willing to help you if I can.

Good luck, and let me know how it turned out.

Comment on Playing with Maven & NativeProcess API in AIR 2.0 by Matt

Matt — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:21:13 +0000

I’ve been trying to write a similar application for running ANT targets from parsed build files. I came across the same issues as you. Have you learned anything new with regards to this?