Posts Tagged ‘ Source Code ’

Customizing toString()

  • September 8th, 2008
  • Posted in Dev

When writing classes for a framework I usually put a custom toString method into important classes so that debugging becomes easier. Normally they would go like something along the lines of: override public function toString():String { return "[ClassName]"; } … Sometimes adding properties to the returned String that give back information about the class, e.g. override public function toString():String { return [ READ MORE ]

ActionScript3 Dice Class

In game development randomness is often necessary for certain tasks, be it the random distribution of graphic tiles, a random factor in NPC AI or random stats in a roleplaying game. Especially for the latter purpose the static Dice class provides a set of methods to roll dice as it is common in a Role-playing [ READ MORE ]

Animated Bitmap Class

The AnimatedBitmap class provides functionality for Bitmap objects that are animated by using a series of still images. When creating a new AnimatedBitmap you provide a BitmapData object that contains an image that consists of the ’single-frame’ images for the animation. [ READ MORE ]

ActionScript 3 MultiMap Class

  • June 10th, 2007
  • Posted in Dev

Recently I needed a HashMap for a project to map key/value pairs but in that particular case the Map required to map not just one but several values to a key. I could have used an array or object to store the values in and map that one but in practice it turned out that [ READ MORE ]

Waterproof AS 3.0 Singleton

  • November 24th, 2006
  • Posted in Dev

While reading Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns I’ve once again came across the AS 3.0 Singleton solution that has to deal with the absence of private constructors (I’ll save my rage and cursings about who had the idea to remove them for now ) and while the authors are using the already well [ READ MORE ]

AS3 Short Variable/Function Names vs Long Ones

  • August 30th, 2006
  • Posted in Dev

In ActionScript it was common knowledge that shorter Variable and Function names yielded better performance in situations were it depends but does that still hold true for ActionScript 3.0? I’ve ran a couple of quick tests to find a clear answer about this. I usually tend keep my Variable/Function names to 1-3 characters when performance [ READ MORE ]