Re: Actionscript workers and async locking?

[Justin Mclean]

Hi,

> It sounds like you really can't do much about the timing of your bootstrap if 
> one call is dependent upon the result of your prior call. Even if you had 
> threads available, you'd be waiting the same amount of time.

Event maps in the Mate framework I find quite useful for this sort of issue 
(http://mate.asfusion.com/).

Here's a code snippet (from an old Flex3 project I had lying about so might be 
a little out of date) that give you a feel for event maps in Mate:

        <EventHandlers type="{LoginEvent.ATTEMPT_USERLOGIN}">
                <RemoteObjectInvoker instance="{service.loginService}" 
method="getLoggedOnUser">
                        <resultHandlers>
                                <MethodInvoker generator="{SelfRegWizard}" 
method="loginAccountStatus" arguments="{resultObject}" />
                        </resultHandlers>
                        <faultHandlers>
                                <EventAnnouncer generator="{ReportEvent}" 
constructorArguments="{[ReportEvent.WARNING, 'loginFailed', 'Login Failed']}" 
/>                      
                        </faultHandlers>
                </RemoteObjectInvoker>
        </EventHandlers>

        <EventHandlers type="{LoginEvent.SUCCESSFUL_LOGIN}">
                <RemoteObjectInvoker instance="{service.loginService}" 
method="getLoggedOnUser">  
                        <resultHandlers>
                                <PropertySetter generator="{SelfRegWizard}" 
sourceKey="{selfRegModel.newAccount}" targetKey="newAccount"/>
                        </resultHandlers>
                </RemoteObjectInvoker>
        </EventHandlers>

Thanks,
Justin