RobotLegs and Flash IDE CS4 Injection

Helmut Granda — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:58:52 +0000

“UPDATE: It has been discovered that Flash CS3/4 can be instructed to keep metadata after all: Simply select “Export SWC” in your publish settings. Doing so will keep all metadata in tact in your SWF!” - Thanks to shaun for this clarification.

So you heard of the RobotLegs framework and downloade their demos so you could compile them on your own computer but the only thing that you have available is CS4, not a problem you can still use the framework and I'm going to update the "Hello Flash" demo to show you how. After this article you should be able to update any other demo or create your own with CS4.

Accordingly to the Knowledge Base we get a good kick start by letting us know that we need the following:

ActionScript:

injector = new SwiftSuspendersInjector(xmlConfiguration);

//Where xmlConfiguration is your XML object.

So in our HelloFlashContext file we are going to add our "xmlConfiguration" property that will be passed to the SwiftSuspendersInjector.

So I am going to borrow the XML_CONFIG from the SwiftSuspendersInjector and use it as a guide for my HelloFlashContext class.

ActionScript:

public function HelloFlashContext(contextView:DisplayObjectContainer)
   {
      injector = new SwiftSuspendersInjector(XML_CONFIG);
      super(contextView);
   }

Now that we know how our XML has to be formed we can start adding our custom properties that will substitute the [Inject] annotations.

There are only two locations where the inject annotation is being used.

ActionScript:

and there are only 2 properties used in both instances

ActionScript:

So with that information we very easily update our XML_CONFIG constant as follows:

ActionScript:

And here you have the complete HellowFlashContext class updated:

ActionScript:

import org.robotlegs.adapters.SwiftSuspendersInjector;

public class HelloFlashContext extends Context
{
   protected static const XML_CONFIG:XML =










      ;

   public function HelloFlashContext(contextView:DisplayObjectContainer)
   {
      injector = new SwiftSuspendersInjector(XML_CONFIG);
      super(contextView);
   }

   override public function startup():void
   {
      // Map some Commands to Events
      commandMap.mapEvent(ContextEvent.STARTUP_COMPLETE, CreateBallCommand, ContextEvent, true);
      commandMap.mapEvent(HelloFlashEvent.BALL_CLICKED, CreateBallCommand, HelloFlashEvent );

      // Create a rule for Dependency Injection
      injector.mapSingleton(StatsModel);

      // Here we bind Mediator Classes to View Classes:
      // Mediators will be created automatically when
      // view instances arrive on stage (anywhere inside the context view)
      mediatorMap.mapView(Ball, BallMediator);
      mediatorMap.mapView(Readout, ReadoutMediator);

      // Manually add something to stage
      contextView.addChild(new Readout());

      // And we're done
      super.startup();
   }

}
}

This way you should be able to update any demo and compile with the Flash IDE.

Updated: Thanks to Jos Yule for pointing out that the XML will be concatenated on the existing XML so no need to recreate it all

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RobotLegs and Flash IDE CS4 Injection