State groups are pretty much the question in reverse - they allow you to group
related states together, but you still have to set the currentState as the
combination.
I've seen this myself mostly when trying to deal with mobile apps and the
rotation capabilities of a view. If you want to use the orientation and
another state set, it's not as easy as it could be.
Ultimately, I ended up doing something like Jude mentions, setting the current
state to a combination of the "substates":
private var _orientation:String; // landscape or portrait
private var _displayAs:String: // the "real" state
public function set orientation(value:String):void {
_orientation = value;
super.setCurrentState(_orientation + '_' + _displayAs);
}
It would be nice if there was some way to combine the substates. In
particular, in this case the built-in orientation management of the mobile
doesn't combine automatically, as it's checking if "landscape" and "portrait"
are states, so there's some workaround that's required anyway...
I had wondered about something like what Cosma suggested on the declaration -
but the setting of the combined states still is cumbersome and requires the app
to manage the sub-states itself rather than having the framework help.
Maybe something like:
<s:states>
<s:ExclusiveStateGroup id="mouse">
<s:State name="up"/>
<s:State name="down"/>
<s:State name="over"/>
</s:ExclusiveStateGroup>
<s:ExclusiveStateGroup id="focus">
<s:State name="nonFocused"/>
<s:State name="focused"/>
</s:ExclusiveStateGroup>
<s:ExclusiveStateGroup id="selection">
<s:State name="nonDefault"/>
<s:State name="default"/>
</s:ExclusiveStateGroup>
</s:states>
currentState.mouse = "up" // Change just the mouse group state
I agree that having too many substates says there's something wrong, but this
could help with some meaningful state combinations like orientation and an
app-specific state.
Bill Turner
Enterprise Software Engineer
First Pacific Corporation
(503) 588-1411 ext. 2303
bi...@firstpac.com
-----Original Message-----
From: John Cunliffe [mailto:mahn...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2013 4:41 AM
To: dev@flex.apache.org
Subject: Re: Multidimensional States
How is that different from the already existing
stateGroups<http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf63611-7ffa.html>property?
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 12:28 PM, jude <flexcapaci...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been coming across more and more cases where it would be great to have
> support for multidimensional states. What this looks like and how it's used
> I'm not sure. Maybe we can discuss ideas.
>
<<snip>>
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