fxmq

Flex Message Queue¶

Flex Message Queue (fxmq) (based on Appcelerator Entourage MQ) provides a lightweight client-side message bus to power event driven programming in Flex with a fraction of the code required for other event handling mechanisms, such as the MVC-style event handling provided by Adobe's Cairngorm Microarchitecture. This implementation of the observer pattern provides a much easier to use programming interface than that of Cairngorm or the native events provided by Flex.

Simple Example¶

The following is a simple example of using the publish/subscribe programming model of fxmq

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" initialize="init()"> 
        <mx:Script> 
                <![CDATA[ 
                        import com.lightrail.mq.*; 
                         
                        private var mq:MessageQueue = MessageQueue.getGlobal(); 
                        [Bindable] 
                        private var msgLog:String = ""; 
                         
                        private function init():void { 
                                mq.sub("log.message", function(message:Message):void { 
                                        msgLog = msgLog + "Received message: " + message.payload.message + "/n"; 
                                }); 
                        } 
                         
                        private function send():void { 
                                mq.pub("log.message", { 
                                        message:this.message.text 
                                }); 
                        } 
                ]]> 
        </mx:Script> 
        <mx:HBox> 
                <mx:TextInput id="message"/> 
                <mx:Button label="Send Message" click="send()"/> 
        </mx:HBox> 
        <mx:Label text="Message Log:"/> 
        <mx:TextArea id="log" height="400" width="500" text="{msgLog}"/> 
</mx:Application>