Feb 07 2009

Using respondTo and reactTo

Category: Development, Fabrication, Flex, PureMVCDarshan Sawardekar @ 11:56 am

Marcel has written a very thorough article which takes a look at a two Fabrication features that help to reduce the boilerplate in PureMVC Mediators, Reflexive Notification Interests and Reactions.

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Jan 09 2009

Fabrication 0.6

Category: Development, Fabrication, Flex, PureMVCDarshan Sawardekar @ 6:38 am

I have finally(!) gotten around to releasing Fabricaton 0.6. This release adds a couple of important new features, Interceptors and Reactions.

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Oct 29 2008

Minor Update – 0.4.3

Category: Fabrication, Flex, PureMVCDarshan Sawardekar @ 10:23 am

Fabrication is now updated to 0.4.3. There was a bug introduced in 0.4.2 with regards to a global (*) route being interpreted as a */INPUT route. This release fixes this bug.

Download 0.4.3 swc

Download 0.4.3 source zip

Thanks Jason for the fix.

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Oct 22 2008

Minor Update – 0.4.2

Category: Actionscript, Development, Fabrication, Flex, PureMVCDarshan Sawardekar @ 3:51 am

I have updated Fabrication to 0.4.2. This version adds,

  1. routeNotification now supports dynamic to arguments. The to parameter can now take moduleAddress objects as well as string routes.
  2. Added expansion property to FabricationProxy to allow turning off of the default notification expansion of for custom named proxies.

Check it out here

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Oct 21 2008

Minor update – 0.4.1

Category: Actionscript, Fabrication, Flex, PureMVCDarshan Sawardekar @ 8:46 am

I have updated Fabrication to 0.4.1. This includes a minor fix to the FlexModule to support loading directly via the ModuleManager. If your are not using the FlexModuleLoader then you need to set the router and defaultRoute in your module’s ready handler. I have added an example project to showcase this. Check it out here.
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Oct 20 2008

Slacker – Post Fabrication

Category: Actionscript, Fabrication, Flex, PureMVCDarshan Sawardekar @ 8:50 am

With the release of Fabrication 0.4, I thought it would be a useful to review the Slacker example in more detail. If are not familiar with the Slacker example, check it out here first. This example will help showcase the reduction of glue code from a PureMVC application using Fabrication.

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Oct 17 2008

Fabrication 0.4 released

Category: Actionscript, Development, Fabrication, Flex, PureMVCDarshan Sawardekar @ 10:37 am

I am very excited to announce the release of Fabrication 0.4. I have decided to release Fabrication on Google Code for the moment. I will look into migration to the puremvc.org repositories at a later date, once those systems are ready.

Fabrication is on Google Code at
http://fabrication.googlecode.com/

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Sep 18 2008

Fabrication Undo (Part 1) – Simple undo demo

Category: Actionscript, Fabrication, Flex, PureMVCDarshan Sawardekar @ 6:33 am

Allowing users to gracefully revert back mistakes is a often an integral part of an application. This is especially true when introducing users to new applications. Undo/Redo is one such way to allow users to feel more comfortable with your application.

Fabrication comes with its own undo management to handle varying complexity of undos. In the next few articles I am going to go through the process of working with undos in Fabrication. Each article will be accompanied by a complete working PureMVC application.

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Sep 12 2008

Fabrication – Simplified PureMVC multicore modules

Category: Actionscript, Development, Fabrication, Flex, PureMVCDarshan Sawardekar @ 7:35 am

We have released a new PureMVC multicore utility, Fabrication. It simplifies the development of modular PureMVC multicore applications. You can find more details about it in the PureMVC forums.

Download the Fabrication utility here.
Download the Fabrication routing demo application with the binaries here.
The live demo is here.

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