On 6/7/13 3:15 PM, "Carlos Rovira" <carlosrov...@apache.org> wrote:
>I ask it some time ago and I think it was not taken into account, but I >think it's important. > >Right now FlexJS brings lots of new concepts like strands and beads or new >mxml "on the fly" but I don't see old but good techniques of legacy Flex >4. >One legacy thing I like was UIComponent lifecycle and it's invalidation >mechanism. I assume that maybe it's too soon and until now nobody tried to >implement this. >But I want to ask since maybe Alex, Peter and others does not want such >lifecycle for UIComponents. > >I think we should discuss a bit about what we want in this section and if >we could plan to have something in the line of what we already have in >Flex >or people are considering new approaches. Good topic as well. Right now, I want to see how far we can go in FlexJS without invalidation. That's because current Flex relies on frame events to pump validation and there is no such thing as frame events in HTML/JS and I'd rather not keep hooking up to setTimeout. But that is not set in stone either. In fact, Peter and I were discussing this topic in relation to the Alert classes he is building as he needed to measure some text. It turns out that the measuring phase in current Flex is not always useful and sometimes wasteful. Currently Flex measures every component on the display list from the bottom up, but quite often, layout is driven from the top by percentages and other constraints and the measurements are not needed up front. FlexJS is attempting to do more things "on-demand" so instead of measuring everything, we're going to see if we can get away with measuring only when we need to. Invalidation is good when changing a bunch of properties at once, especially when properties needed to be applied in a certain order. The question is whether that needs to be handled globally like a LayoutManager or some more internal callLater feature on a per-instance basis. Like I said, nothing is set in stone, so thoughts on this topic are welcome. -Alex
