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Last week’s take on this Central article.
Read on for rant…
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AS1 version of EventDispatcher
Don’t know if I’m allowed to post, so rather than be sorry later, I’ll just explain what I did as it’s pretty easy to repeat.
Manager needed to compile app last week, so I had to convert all the AS2 to AS1. The main issue was EventDispatcher… <strike>he</strike> she was written in a pattern/manner that I was not familiar with. So, I just started hacking to see what worked.
I first put everything on _global, instead of the functions in a class definition. Since the majority of the methods were static (Singleton’ish?), I just put those methods straight on the classes, AS1 style (_global.EventDispatcher.initialize).
Second, I deleted all the first 4 lines in the initialize function.
So far, <strike>she</strike> he works great!
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Live Meeting
Dude, I saw this on TV last night as a commercial, amongst other goofy arse Office commercials. However, the Live Meeting one was pretty cool. If Microsoft is spending this much marketing dough on <a href=”http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX010909711033&CTT=6&Origin=ES790020011033″>Live Meeting</a>, I can see why Macromedia made <a href=”http://www.macromedia.com/software/breeze/”>Breeze</a>/Breeze Live. With globalization now a process & streamlining initiative for companies, it only makes sense that enabling products and services to empower them to do so shall follow.
…I just wish my place in the Flash ecosystem was more so that I could contribute. Let us hope that the Breeze API + Pods are an area in which I/we can do that.
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XML vs. AS2 part Deux – scoping callbacks: Inheritance
That insanely smart Canuck (at least, I think he’s a Canuck; <a href=”http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/000065.html”>too cute not to be</a>), <a href=”http://www.gskinner.com/blog/”>Grant Skinner</a>, has <a href=”http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/000069.html”>posted</a> a neat way to utilize el activation object to quickly and easily scope your XML objects (LoadVars same way). Nestled in composition ‘esque classes, this is a great way to wire your XML document’s callback to your class so it can call a custom parsing method, etc. Better yet, if you place a var in front of the creation of the XML object, he’ll die when garbage collection comes along (supposedly).
However, I don’t agree this is a best practice. Course, nothing in Flash is really documented as such, most Flashers just generally agree and double check with Java peeps to ensure we can feel good about our decision to do so.