Re: [Flashcoders] OOP Tutorial

2010-03-06 Thread Meinte van't Kruis
hmm, perhaps I was sounding a bit too snobbish. My point is really that, espessially with learning computer stuff, be it creative(photoshop etc.) or coding, alot of resources are available online, and I'm always surprised when people start about books as soon as there's some questions or tutorial r

Re: [Flashcoders] OOP Tutorial

2010-03-06 Thread Mark Winterhalder
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Susan Day wrote: > I've been googling as3 oop but the > tutorials don't seem to address my needs. Can you help me understand what it > is I'm looking to do so I can google up the appropriate tutorials? Wikipedia is your friend for looking things up, and getting an

Re: [Flashcoders] OOP Tutorial

2010-03-05 Thread Paul Andrews
On 05/03/2010 18:04, Dave Watts wrote: Guess it depends on the person, I have been a Flash developer for over 5 years and have yet to open a book about it. Gosh. We can all learn something from a good book, no matter how accomplished we are. You might have learned something new or just

Re: [Flashcoders] OOP Tutorial

2010-03-05 Thread Dave Watts
>> Guess it depends on the person, I have been a Flash developer for over 5 >> years >> and have yet to open a book about it. > > Gosh. We can all learn something from a good book, no matter how > accomplished we are. > > You might have learned something new or just plain faster. Not to speak for

Re: [Flashcoders] OOP Tutorial

2010-03-05 Thread Susan Day
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Benny wrote: > No need for inheritance then, just give your Star class the desired > parameters in the constructor, e.g > > package > { >import flash.display.MovieClip; > >public class Star extends MovieClip >{ >public funct

Re: [Flashcoders] OOP Tutorial

2010-03-05 Thread Paul Andrews
On 05/03/2010 16:38, Meinte van't Kruis wrote: Guess it depends on the person, I have been a Flash developer for over 5 years and have yet to open a book about it. Gosh. We can all learn something from a good book, no matter how accomplished we are. You might have learned something new o

RE: [Flashcoders] OOP Tutorial

2010-03-05 Thread Karina Steffens
rom: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders- > boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Meinte van't Kruis > Sent: 05 March 2010 4:39 > To: Flash Coders List > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] OOP Tutorial > > Guess it depends on the person, I have been a Flash developer f

RE: [Flashcoders] OOP Tutorial

2010-03-05 Thread Benny
No need for inheritance then, just give your Star class the desired parameters in the constructor, e.g package { import flash.display.MovieClip; public class Star extends MovieClip { public function Star(lineColor:uint, fillColor:uint) {

Re: [Flashcoders] OOP Tutorial

2010-03-05 Thread Meinte van't Kruis
Guess it depends on the person, I have been a Flash developer for over 5 years and have yet to open a book about it. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Karina Steffens wrote: > Hi Susan, > > I wouldn't recommend relying just on online tutorials, or discussion posts > for a something as huge as learn

Re: [Flashcoders] OOP Tutorial

2010-03-05 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Susan Day wrote: > Hi; > Now I would like to call my class Star from another class, but pass > different values to its variables. Do I need to implement the inheriting > class as Star? I'm kinda lost here. I've been googling as3 oop but the > tutorials don't seem to address my needs. Can you help m

RE: [Flashcoders] OOP Tutorial

2010-03-05 Thread Karina Steffens
Hi Susan, I wouldn't recommend relying just on online tutorials, or discussion posts for a something as huge as learning AS3 OOP. The best thing would be to get a book that covers the subject, such as Colin Moock's Essential ActionScript 3.0 from O'Reilly, or any one of the other excellent books o