On 8/27/06, Ralf Bokelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... but passing events up a deeply nested call chain is a pain, isn't it? > it's surely possible, but much more code. > For what it's worth, I usually take this event broadcasting approach with AS2, if you accept that most stuff is event based and style your code to that it's not too cumbersome. But, I would love to see better support of Exceptions in ActionScript. Even AS3 hasn't taken it as far as it should to make it useful IMO.
> cheers, > ralf. > > On 8/27/06, Martin Heidegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For me, the main point of using exceptions is the possibility to pass > > > > > > > the control up the call chain. > > > > > > I usually use events for those kinds of problems because they are usually > > better for visualisation. > > I mean like: > > > > .onXmlParseError > > .onFileNotFound > > .onConnectionNotPossible > > > > because those are on one hand better readable and on the other hand there is > > better support > > for events than for exceptions. So it matches a little better in my > > workflow. I hide this way the > > problems too from the unnecessary code parts because they just are not going > > to be called. > > > > .onXmlParseReady -> builtTree (only gets called if everything was fine > > > > yours > > Martin. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > osflash mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > > -- > Ralf Bokelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Flex & Flash Consultant based in Cologne/Germany > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
