Employee Directory
Return to table of contents While reading ED code, I frequently encounter singleton pattern. A singleton class is a class you can only instantiate once and it is useful to store application-wide data (say window position). ApplicationModel and all ma
Return to table of contents CSS is very convenient to control the appearance of the user interface. Let’s see the following code snippet inside employeedirectory.css too see how to use styling. .appHelpButton { up-skin: Embed("/embed_asset
Return to table of contents When I downloaded and launched ED, I was impressed by its elegant user interface. So how is implemented? The relevant files are: And the hierarchy of UI is shown below. I expand each custom component (except EmployeeView a
Return to table of contents While most other Adobe AIR sample applications have only a single mxml file, ED has many folders and files. Here is the structure of the source code: We can see that the codes are grouped in different folders. The hierarch
Return to table of contents When I ran Employee Directory (ED) for the first time I was instantly impressed by its elegance. But when I started to read the code I found myself totally lost. While most other sample or tutorial applications provided by
Return to table of contents Here are some links about Employee Directory (ED). author’s (Daniel Wabyick) blog http://www.wabysabi.com/blog/ Adobe AIR sample webpage (download ED and its source here) http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/flex/samples.
