My preference is actually:
e) Don't extend Movie Clip.
:)
Basically, I prefer to have a class encapsulate a movie clip. Either
have the constructor take a reference to an empty movie clip for it to
use as its UI area, or have it take in a reference to the MC that
should be its parent and have it create its own empty movie clip.
The reason I like this is that when you're extending a movie clip a
lot of times you may want to restrict some of the interaction with it
(to keep internal state valid, etc). You don't necessarily want
someone (or even you, accidentally) playing with the MC itself, but
have your class completely manage it. By encapsulating it inside
another class instead of simply extending it I feel it's a bit
cleaner.
But that's just me, and some claim I'm crazy. :)
-Andy
On 1/17/07, Matthias Dittgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
beside the many AS3 questions, IMHO most of the current real-world
projects are still based on FlashPlayer 7 and 8 and thus on AS2,
because of the player penetration.
This was probably asked before, but I want to know which workflow
works best for you guys:
Do you prefer
a) the attachMovie method
b) the use of a static create method
c) a GUI toolkit like ASWING and extend from JComponent
d) some other workflow
Here's a class to illustrate (a) and (b):
/**
* SomeMovieClip
*/
import net.lizu.*
class net.lizu.SomeMovieClip extends MovieClip
{
// register class
public static var SymbolName:String =
"__Packages.net.lizu.SomeMovieClip";
public static var SymbolOwner:Function = SomeMovieClip;
public static var SymbolLinked =
Object.registerClass(SymbolName,SymbolOwner);
public var _some:String;
// constructor
public function SomeMovieClip()
{
}
// alternative to attachMovie call
public static function create(target:MovieClip, name:String,
initObject:Object):SomeMovieClip
{
return
SomeMovieClip(target.attachMovie(SomeMovieClip.SymbolName,
name, target.getNextHighestDepth(), initObject));
}
// entrypoint
static function main()
{
_root.attachMovie(SomeMovieClip.SymbolName,"clipId1",_root.getNextHighestDepth(),
{_x: 30, _some: "Hello 1"});
SomeMovieClip.create(_root, "clipId2", {_x: 30, _some: "Hello
2"});
}
}
And is there a way to automate the writing of SymbolName,SymbolLinked
and create for all my classes which extend MovieClip?
Thanks,
Matthias
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