RobotSignals: Combining RobotLegs with Robert Penner’s Signals
Sunday, December 20th, 2009Robotlegs is an AS3 dependency injection micro-framework.
Signals is a new approach for AS3 events, inspired by C# events and signals/slots in Qt.
Put them together and you’ve got an elegant, simple & completely decoupled solution to the problem of Flex & AIR development.
I’ve thrown together a really quick example (which you can download below) based upon a couple of things I’ve seen recently; firstly Richard Lord’s framework comparison talk at FlashBrighton a couple of weeks ago, and secondly, Owen Bennett’s blend of RobotLegs and Signals he showed me last week. Seeing what Owen had put together inspired me to have a go myself. I wondered whether it was possible to create a RobotLegs/Signals hybrid that was even more decoupled than the system Owen was working on. So I created a short (less then 100 lines) class called ‘SignalBox’, named after a similarly named class in Owen’s system.