I’ve added some more information on the SomaCore wiki.

You can find some code and explanation how to use, create and remove Wires within the framework, using injection or not. I also explained how to monitor and control the application flow with methods you are used to, such as dispatchEvent, addEventListener, preventDefault and so on.

You can also find explanation to handle the views in the framework.

Last addition is a diagram showing the commands flow from other framework elements, I’ve added it to the previous SomaCore diagram.

Next step in the wiki are about commands and 2 others diagrams related to them.

Hope that will help to get you started.

I’ll be writing in the next days a series of wiki, manual, best practices with tons of code example. It should help you to get started. I will be explaining in-depth how SomaCore works and what you can do with it.

The first one is about the Framework Instance. The different ways to create a SomaCore application, what is required, how to enable dependency injection and how to access to this instance.

Another SomaCore demo is available on Githug or on the SomaCore page.

This demo is relatively simple. Keywords are sent to the Twitter API using a command that is dispatched straight from the view as it is something possible with SomaCore. A command is nothing more than a flash built-in event. The views are able to dispatch commands without accessing to a mediator first and stay completely free of framework code.

A TwitterService dispatch a search result event after getting the data. The wire responsible of the main view is listening to the search result event and update the view.

The SearchWire class demonstrates that both commands and events can be listened to from any wire.

The control of the flow of the application is also very flexible, the SearchWire class could have stopped the search command for any reason using event.preventDefault() as the class is listening to the command (if the event is sent with a cancelable property set to true).

Any commands in SomaCore can be listened to in any wires, and can also be “default prevented”.

Twitter Search

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Credits: Inspired by a great Flex Robotlegs demo by John Lindquist, using the AS3 API library Tweetr.

I’ve added a very simple SomaCore Hello World demo.

The application creates a wire, a view and a model. The view dispatch a command to request a message, the command ask the data to the model, the model gets the data and dispatch an event to notify the framework, the wire catch the event and update the view with the message.

That’s all!

The demo is also available from the demo repository on Github:
http://github.com/soundstep/somacore_demos

Hello World

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I’ve just uploaded a new video tutorial (48 min) for my lightweight AS3 MVC Framework SomaCore.

You can now get started with it. I explain how to create the framework instance, how to create a wire, create views, create commands and how to intercept them.

I hope you like it!