[Flashcoders] Class for movie - best practice question

2007-04-24 Thread Johan Nyberg 

Hi, just wanted to know if there is a best practice when creating a class for 
the mother movie (i.e. the flash-movie itself). Is
this the way to go?

var mother:MyFabFlashApp = new MyFabFlashApp();

..or is there a better way? Seems kind of a stupid question, but I wanted to 
put it anyway in case I've missed something.  ;-)  I'veput my main code on the 
first frame of the _root timeline for too long, and want to move it into a 
class.

Regards, 


/Johan Nyberg

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Re: [Flashcoders] Class for movie - best practice question

2007-04-24 Thread Robert Brisita 

One way:
In the same directory as your SWF.  Have a main class with a static 
function that takes in a movie clip.

In your FLA put code in Frame 1 like:
MainClass.main(this);

The this is the root movie clip.  The static function main will pass 
it around to who ever needs it in your application.  It depends how you 
want to handle it but this is a starting point.


Hope this helps,
Rob.

Johan Nyberg wrote:
Hi, just wanted to know if there is a best practice when creating a 
class for the mother movie (i.e. the flash-movie itself). Is

this the way to go?

var mother:MyFabFlashApp = new MyFabFlashApp();

..or is there a better way? Seems kind of a stupid question, but I 
wanted to put it anyway in case I've missed something.  ;-)  I'veput 
my main code on the first frame of the _root timeline for too long, 
and want to move it into a class.


Regards,
/Johan Nyberg

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Re: [Flashcoders] Class for movie - best practice question

2007-04-24 Thread Steven Sacks 

Best practices:

A lot of people use main.swf and main.as.  FLASC/MTASC has a feature to 
support this very functionality.


Never put classes in the same folder as your movie.  Always put them in 
a namespace folder chain.


For instance:

class com.clientname.projectname.Main

HTH,
Steven









Johan Nyberg wrote:
Hi, just wanted to know if there is a best practice when creating a 
class for the mother movie (i.e. the flash-movie itself). Is

this the way to go?

var mother:MyFabFlashApp = new MyFabFlashApp();

..or is there a better way? Seems kind of a stupid question, but I 
wanted to put it anyway in case I've missed something.  ;-)  I'veput my 
main code on the first frame of the _root timeline for too long, and 
want to move it into a class.


Regards,
/Johan Nyberg

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Re: [Flashcoders] Class for movie - best practice question

2007-04-24 Thread sean 
There are a number of ways of essentially 'hacking' AS2 to behave in a
more classic OO manner. Personally, as it IS a hack no matter what you do
in AS2, I always keep it simple and just import a Main.as file, rather
than go to unnecessarily elaborate lengths to fool myself that I'm really
using a stricly typed, perfectly conventioned OO based language. But fear
not, AS3 will let you create the document class you long for. In the most
mature example of popular commercial OO based code, Java, the best
practice is always to call the main dcument class main. If you stick
with Java best practices you won't go wrong with AS.

Sean McSharry

 Hi, just wanted to know if there is a best practice when creating a class
 for the mother movie (i.e. the flash-movie itself). Is
 this the way to go?

 var mother:MyFabFlashApp = new MyFabFlashApp();

 ..or is there a better way? Seems kind of a stupid question, but I wanted
 to put it anyway in case I've missed something.  ;-)  I'veput my main code
 on the first frame of the _root timeline for too long, and want to move it
 into a class.

 Regards,

 /Johan Nyberg

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Re: [Flashcoders] Class for movie - best practice question

2007-04-24 Thread Steven Sacks 

If you like Java so much, why don't you marry it?

If you want to make deferential commentary regarding Actionscript, go to 
Java forums and seek validation from your Java friends.  Unlike us 
Flashcoders, I'm sure they'd be happy to oblige.


It's extremely easy to make a document class in AS2 and it is most 
certainly not a hack.  You make an empty movieclip (CTRL+F8), assign 
your main class to it (under Linkage), put it on the root timeline at 
0,0 and you're done.  Doesn't get much easier than that.


It's not a hack, there is nothing negative about it and it has quite a 
few positives.  Just build your entire application within that clip.


The hacks that I have seen about how to force the root to have a class 
assigned to it are complicated at best, and unnecessary (as I have just 
illustrated) at worst, not to mention you can run into issues when you 
take into account FlashVars and other _root considerations.


When I'm developing, I hear two voices in my head:

Judge Judy says, KISS! Keep It Simple, Stupid.
and David Hansson says DRY! Don't Repeat Yourself.
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RE: [Flashcoders] Class for movie - best practice question

2007-04-24 Thread Patrick Matte | BLITZ 
Try this class. Put new ApplicationClass(this); on the first frame of
the timeline.

import mx.events.EventDispatcher;

class ApplicationClass extends MovieClip{

public var addEventListener:Function;
public var removeEventListener:Function;
private var dispatchEvent:Function;

public function ApplicationClass(target){
target.__proto__ = __proto__;
this = ApplicationClass(target);
EventDispatcher.initialize(this);
init();
}

private function init(){
trace(this =  + this);
}

}

You can also use that class as a generic class for all your timelines
and extend it like this

import mx.utils.Delegate;
import it.sephiroth.XML2Object;

class RootClass extends ApplicationClass{


public function RootClass(target){
super(target);
}

private function init(){
trace(override init this =  + this);
}

}
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RE: [Flashcoders] Class for movie - best practice question

2007-04-24 Thread David Ngo 
Why would you extend MovieClip and composition a MovieClip as well? Seems a
bit redundant, no?


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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Class for movie - best practice question

Try this class. Put new ApplicationClass(this); on the first frame of
the timeline.

import mx.events.EventDispatcher;

class ApplicationClass extends MovieClip{

public var addEventListener:Function;
public var removeEventListener:Function;
private var dispatchEvent:Function;

public function ApplicationClass(target){
target.__proto__ = __proto__;
this = ApplicationClass(target);
EventDispatcher.initialize(this);
init();
}

private function init(){
trace(this =  + this);
}

}

You can also use that class as a generic class for all your timelines
and extend it like this

import mx.utils.Delegate;
import it.sephiroth.XML2Object;

class RootClass extends ApplicationClass{


public function RootClass(target){
super(target);
}

private function init(){
trace(override init this =  + this);
}

}
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RE: [Flashcoders] Class for movie - best practice question

2007-04-24 Thread Patrick Matte | BLITZ 
This AS2 class acts like the document class in AS3.

You need to extend MovieClip like you need to extend Sprite or MovieClip
in AS3.

Tracing this in the class will result in _level0, its not composition.
Its really useful for swf that you load, gives you the ability to type
check everything on the root timeline without having to create an empty
clip on the timeline etc... And I've thrown in EventDispatcher in there
which is really useful as well.


BLITZ | Patrick Matte - 310-551-0200 x214

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Why would you extend MovieClip and composition a MovieClip as well?
Seems a
bit redundant, no?


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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Class for movie - best practice question

Try this class. Put new ApplicationClass(this); on the first frame of
the timeline.

import mx.events.EventDispatcher;

class ApplicationClass extends MovieClip{

public var addEventListener:Function;
public var removeEventListener:Function;
private var dispatchEvent:Function;

public function ApplicationClass(target){
target.__proto__ = __proto__;
this = ApplicationClass(target);
EventDispatcher.initialize(this);
init();
}

private function init(){
trace(this =  + this);
}

}

You can also use that class as a generic class for all your timelines
and extend it like this

import mx.utils.Delegate;
import it.sephiroth.XML2Object;

class RootClass extends ApplicationClass{


public function RootClass(target){
super(target);
}

private function init(){
trace(override init this =  + this);
}

}
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