All 532 pages Now Available
ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns has been published and is now available anywhere you buy books. Amazon.com has indicated 328 pages, but the actual page count is 532 pages. So just figure you get an extra 200 pp free!
Free Sample Chapter
You can get a free sample chapter at: Decorator Pattern from O’Reilly.
Table of Contents
Check out the Table of Contents TOC to see the topics and design patterns covered. Examples can be written in Flex or Flash CS3.
The ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns book is now out! by Bill Sanders, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
Hey Bill,
I talked with Ted Patrick for a bit at 360 Flex on why Adobe didn’t go with using the decorator pattern for Flex’s controls. I know that Swing uses decoration pretty heavily for their UI components. Anyway, have you experimented with trying to decorate Flex based controls? I’ve run into a couple situations where decoration would have saved me some development time, but I couldn’t pursue it because I was running into issues with the SystemManager and FocusManager classes.
Dan
Hi Dan,
I’m probably one of the few ActionScript 3.0 DP users who does not develop in Flex. A while back, before Flex 2 came out, I worked with it for a while and got a lot of help on Flex 2 and DPs from Ali Mills who was doing some work for Macromedia/Adobe. Later, I learned that Ali was working on a DP book for ActionScript with Addison-Wesley publishers. (That may not have worked out.) Anyway, since the great bulk of my own development work has been with Flash CS3/ActionScript and I have not done a thing with Flex based controls I doubt that I could offer up anything other than a wild guess.
However, I am working through my Flyweight saga in an attempt to use button components as part of a FW shared object. In this process, I may run into some of the same kinds of issues with the FocusManager (Flash CS3 doesn’t seem to have a SystemManager class that’s available to the API). If I discover something useful, I’ll pass it back to you. (This is all preparation for a presentation I’m doing at OOPSLA in Montreal later this year. If you’re going, let’s talk.)
Anyway, you can contact Ali through his blog at:
http://www.alimills.com/
He’s a very smart and cool guy and may be able to help out.
Kindest regards,
Bill