jimvc

Lightweight actionscript 3 framework that combines MVC (model view controller) and FSM (finite state machine)

This is a very simple seed project that I developed after reading about and creating a lot of Flash Applictaions. It was originally designed for simple Flash games and allowed to me to keep my classes small and each have a single responsibility.

Main.as - This is where the application begins. The core functionality of this class is in the changeState function that descides which view to show, kills the old view, shows the new one, and attaches an ENTER_FRAME handler to the new view.

Model - An internal data store. Here, it's basically a class with public static variables.

Views - These are handles by main.as, and each represents a different state of the application. These display stuff on the screen. Each view also has acess to its own ENTER_FRAME handler.

Controllers - These are almost always singleton classes for me. Basically, the views can hand off work that they need to do into compartmentalized classes that can normally be thought of as a type of helper class.