Yeh yeh yeh there are a fistful of frameworks out there and there is no doubt I am a super supporter of PureMVC but whats the harm in checking out logic behind other contributers? In particular I have been talking with my friend Francis for a while now about frameworks and he has been busy building HydraMVC, heres a brief:
HydraMVC is the result of a total rewrite of the PureMVC API exclusively for Flex, allowing Flex developers to take advantage of the PureMVC paradigm while leveraging native Flex features.
In addition to using Events vs. an independent Observer pattern, HydraMVC also streamlines implementation, encapsulating much of the initialization code that needed to be written when implementing PureMVC.
There are some simple demo’s to get dirty with so its well worth a peek!
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“Notification event types can bubble / capture”
eww. I don’t like event bubbling in general. It leads to having things firing off and not knowing where it started from in the event chain. I dunno… Always worth a look, but it isn’t enticing me off the PureMVC anytime soon.
Hey Joel,
TBH I am not looking to entice peeps away from PureMVC with this post cos I am still as happy as a pig in muck with PureMVC
However, Francis has done some serious work on his framework and the dude is pretty switched on so I say its worth having a good look.
RE: Bubbling…I tend to agree with what your saying to a degree, I have voiced my opinions on bubbling in the past and had to duck and run for cover
I think some code examples of how doing something in hydra is easier than puremvc. I’ve been using Fabrication plugin for puremvc, and this makes everything pretty easy to work with. Not sure how hydra can make it easier