Comments on: getNextHighestDepth gotcha: Part Deux https://jessewarden.com/2004/08/getnexthighestdepth-gotcha-part-deux.html Software | Fitness | Gaming Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:35:23 +0000 hourly 1 By: JesterXL https://jessewarden.com/2004/08/getnexthighestdepth-gotcha-part-deux.html/comment-page-1#comment-1932 Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:35:23 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/?p=594#comment-1932 The Flash components for v2 rock, but they DO take a lot of learning which you shouldn’t have to do.

Quick survival tips:
– don’t code stuff on _root; make a class, and have 1 line of code that instantiates your class. That way, you won’t have ANY depth problems.
– extend from either UIComponent or View; do not extend from movieclip. If your going to use the coponents, use all fo them.
– Finally, do NOT lay out things by hand; use code in createChildren… you’ll have no initialization issues when doing this

I could write a book, that but that should keep you out of harms way.

]]> By: Bug https://jessewarden.com/2004/08/getnexthighestdepth-gotcha-part-deux.html/comment-page-1#comment-1931 Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:29:43 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/?p=594#comment-1931 Ugh. Thanks for (re)posting this — it answers why my code suddenly stopped working once I added a simple little CheckBox component.

So far Flash components are 0 for 3 in my finding them worth using…

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