Flex Builder 2.01 and mx.modules

Ok, so pong exploration project delayed slightly.
I'm working with flex builder 2.01 and they have put quite a bit of work into mx.modules.
There weren't any examples anywhere, so I was left to explore the API documentation.

Most of my day was spent wrestling in IIS PHP MYSQL hell getting a wiki setup, but after I got that done, I devoted fulltime to replacing my old classloader flex hacks with mx.modules.

I just got them working. They were very foreign at first and I was cursing at not having better examples to work with, but now that I know how they're used, I can drive home victorious.

Some code for others who may be struggling with these puppies:

First I created a ModuleEventHandler to hold an instance of my global framework that I want to pass into the module with an init method later. (You're supposed to be able to do this by passing it to the create method, but I couldn't get that working yet).

public class ModuleEventHandler {
public var gui:SomeFrameworkInterface;
public function ModuleEventHandler(gui:SomeFrameworkInterface) { this.gui=gui; }
public function onModuleReady(e:ModuleEvent):void {
var i:IModuleInfo = ModuleManager.getModule(e.target.url);
Object(i.factory.create()).init(gui);
}
}

Then I created a generic loadModule function that will do the dirty work. All my modules will be suffixed with Wrapper.swf.

public function loadModule(name:String):void {
var m:ModuleLoader = new ModuleLoader();
m.url = name+"Wrapper.swf";
m.loadModule();
m.addEventListener(mx.events.ModuleEvent.READY ,(new ModuleEventHandler(gui)).onModuleReady);
}

the SomeWrapper class looks like this

public class SomeWrapper extends mx.modules.ModuleBase implements IFlexModuleFactory
{
public var gui:SomeFrameworkInterface;
public function init(gui:SomeFrameworkInterface) { this.gui=gui;
//other code here to modify the gui how you want to using the module stuff
// most likely dispatch some event on it that it reacts to.
}
public function create(... parameters):Object { return new SomeWrapper(); }
public function info():Object { return {}; }
}

In my interface I have an accordian that the module adds itself to, and its working so I'm stoked =)