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By: Elaine Odw

Elaine Odw — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:55:18 +0000

Being a parent of a robotleg and a boyblack, how do i parse XML without losing any street cred? Is it doable? How do you spell elefant?

By: shaun

shaun — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:48:09 +0000

Hi Ored, it comes down to caching: http://shaun.boyblack.co.za/blog/2009/11/10/rob...

By: ored

ored — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:37:14 +0000

hey there,
in one of your video tutorials, you mentioned that flash remoting was a crap format for the web but said you'd mention that in another discussion. Can you elaborate on why using RemoteObject is a crap format for the web?
i am eagerly learning about other data provider methods (actionscript projects only, not really MXML) besides just parsing XML via HTTPServices. Namely, connecting a Java servlet to flash movie.

By: shaun

shaun — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:26:03 +0000

There are many approaches to the multi-context scenario. Stray has put together some utility classes that you might want to check out:

http://github.com/Stray/robotlegs-utilities-Mod...

Swapping framework apparatus at runtime is certainly possible – but it might get tricky as old injections/references will point to old objects (if you know what I mean!). I imagine it would take a little tweaking to get things to work as expected. Another option to look into is using SmartyPants-IoC for DI as it offers “live” injections – a kind of injection/binding hybrid that updates previous injections when their values change.

By: shovemedia

shovemedia — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:53:16 +0000

I would *love* (pay?) to see a RobotLegs example utilizing multiple Contexts. Is this doable (recommended) without taking the next step to multiple swfs and modules?

The same is true for the *Maps. Is there a (good) way to swap these out at runtime as part of the application flow? It seems as though you could achieve some very interesting StateMachine patterns if so, but I haven't been able to get my head around it.