Comments on: Some AS3 examples

By: Zombie Ape - Terrifying Tales of Terror

Zombie Ape - Terrifying Tales of Terror — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:36:44 +0000

[...] I am really not liking the idea of learing AS 3. One more thing to learn and I have to start forgetting AS 2. sucks. Well, here is some basic starters to help my brain bend it’s way around it all. http://www.webdevils.com/?p=56 [...]

By: admin

admin — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:16:07 +0000

I think the MovieClip is essential if you are attachIng clips from your library or working with clips that you have created in Flash. If you are making stuff dynamically then it’s all about the Sprite class.

Any class that is going to be displayed on the stage should extend Sprite or MovieClip. If the class doesn’t have a timeline Sprite is the choice.

I have been trying to wrap my head around the new Display model. I spent some time last night trying to solve a problem. After a while I realized I had forgotten to add my Sprite to the display list. Doh! The clip was a little complex with several nested sprites which I had added to the display list of the parent class. But the parent had not been added to the main document class.

By: Jay Harley

Jay Harley — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:36:04 +0000

Hi Mitch

Thanks for the examples! One question, do you find yourself using the MovieClip class as frequently in AS 3.0? I know that Adobe has moved a lot of methods out of it and into the “display” model.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:06:29 +0000

No problem, let me know if you have questions or suggestions. I’m just getting start with AS3 myself.

By: Richard Summerhayes

Richard Summerhayes — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:27:43 +0000

Thanks for posting this Mitch