Comments on: Role based UI with Flex

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:45:37 +0000

Hi Sönke,

Thank you for sharing this great wundefull solution!
Greetings from Germany!

Martin Zach

By: Sönke

Sönke — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:00:40 +0000

Craig, I think this can not be done with markup. You could provide multiple dataProvider for the different user roles.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:34:12 +0000

Hi great example.

What would be the best approach to use this within a menu?

Thanks

By: Sönke

Sönke — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:27:38 +0000

Thanks Johan, I know that the code is not so readable. I will change the CSS when I have time.

By: Johan

Johan — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:41:14 +0000

Thanks for a nice example. Much appreciated.

FYI – the dotted background on your blog makes it hard to read the AS (code) text which is quite a small font.

By: Sönke

Sönke — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:53:46 +0000

First thanks for the nice comments.
To Sven and Hyder: Yes this would mean that there is an extra unsused memory when you bind to includeInLayout and visible but I also show in my example application how you you deal with container an that childs are only added/instantiated if they are really used. Nevertheless I think this extra memory is such a small part of the total memory usage that it has no weight. The benefit of the binding approach is that you have really small and very readable markup to provide this functionality. If you implement this with ActionScript code you will have more bugs and refactoring will also be more complicated so I think it’s worth the extra 100KB memory usage I think.

By: Hyder Alamgir

Hyder Alamgir — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:50:54 +0000

I’d go with Sven. I’d rather create ui components at runtime using actionscript rather than crank up unused memory space. If your components are independent enough, there shouldn’t be much complexity involved.

By: Sven Busse

Sven Busse — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:13:02 +0000

would this mean, that some users have components or whole modules in their memory, which they will never be able to use? I’d rather have an argument, that lets components not even be created, if a certain argument is false.

By: Benoit Jadinon

Benoit Jadinon — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:27:25 +0000

nice. I just needed something like this. gotta love rss. thx

By: Chris H

Chris H — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:47:35 +0000

yep, thanks. will come in handy soon…