What I cannot do with Controller and Designer..

[mauzi75]

Are these two considerations about controllers and designer true or false?


1) when I add a controller action, I cannot use a "refs" element. For example:

config: {
        refs: {
            myref: '#myelement'
        }
    },
    
    control : {
        myref: {
            change : "onMyRefChange"
        }
    }

it's impossible to do with designer, because I can use only a "compomentQuery" selector for the control object, like this:

config: {
        refs: {
            myref: '#myelement'
        }
    },
    
    control : {
        '#myelement': {
            change : "onMyRefChange"
        }
    }

2) with designer, I cannot bind a custom event for an element. For example:

config: {
    
    control : {
        '#myelement': {
            customevent: "onMyElementCustomEvent"
        }
    }

it's impossible to do with designer, because I have always to choose a targetType for the controller action and then bind one of the predefined events for that type.

[aconran]

Not yet, but it will be.

[ssamayoa]

For 2, is a little bit annoying but you can create the event and call your custom action/function. I have to to this way because you cant associate the same event to different components.

Regards.

[mauzi75]

Ok, I will wait for a new great release of Designer ;-)

2) yes, there are many workarounds for the second issue; this is mine: in the controller use a "controller action" and a "basic function" to do this

    config: {
        control: {
            "#mycomponent": {
                initialize: 'onMyComponentInitialize'
            }
        }
    },


    onMyComponentInitialize: function(component, options) {


        //workaround for Designer custom events missing)
        component.on({
            mycomponentevent: this.onMyComponentEvent,
            scope: this
        });


    },


    onMyComponentEvent: function(param1, param2, ...) {


		//make what you need: this code is executed when "mycomponent" fires "mycomponentevent"
		
    }

on the component fire the event where you want

this.fireEvent("mycomponentevent",param1,param2,...);

[ssamayoa]

I been using SD for ExtJS only and initialize event dont exists

Thats the reason I cant be able to add custom events on controllers even if I can craft a custom component which fires them.

Regads.

[rsringeri]

Looks like that not been fixed in Architect 2 release version either. Thanks for the workaround.