I've tried both ways, and generally prefer to subclass MovieClip. Both approaches do have their advantages, though, at least in AS 1.0 and 2.0. But in AS3.0, there's no benefit at all to the composition method. You can declare new movie clips without attaching them to any timeline--they just exist as normal objects in memory until you add them as a child of some other clip.
On 12/8/06, David Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am working on a Flash app that will be set up in an MVC architecture. It will have draggable objects, a menu, a property inspector, and other UI pieces. In the past I have built my Views with composition; that is, by including the MovieClip as a property instead of subclassing it. But I have been looking at the UIObject and UIComponents and wondering if subclassing them would be a better move.
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