Try the much faster appendText() method :) Cheers,
Simon On 11 Jul 2008, at 13:53, polestar11 wrote: Hi there I wanted to check if there are any tricks one can do to improve the speed on concatenating strings. I know in Java there is a StringBuilder class which is faster than the '+' operator. I havent seen an equivallent for Actionscript, so is var mystring:String = 'string1' + 'string2' the fastest way to concatenate strings? CHeers tracy

