Thursday, November 30, 2006

Oops, I'm going to tell you a secret now! There's already a built-in class to do that, it's called Delegate. simply:

import mx.utils.Delegate;

var myxml:XML = new XML();
myxml.ignoreWhite = true;
myxml.load("something.xml");
myxml.onLoad = Delegate.create(this, onXMLLoad);
function onXMLLoad():Void {
trace(this); // traces _level0
trace(myxml); // traces xml structure
}

oh also, bigspaceship wrote a new class that lets you add your own arguments onto the call, so like delegate.create(this, onxmlload, myparam, "otherparam") it's on labs.bigspaceship.com/blog

OH and sry to spamalot but it's useful in other things as well. say you have a movieclip and you HAVE to use the onRelease handler for that mc, as in mc.onRelease = function() (aka you lose the scope to the class) then what i do is define variables in that mc for functions i might need to call from the class like this:



mc.setSomeVar = Delegate.create(this, setSomeVar);
mc.doSomething = Delegate.create(this, doSomething);
mc.onRelease = function():Void {
this.setSomeVar(true);
this.doSomething(false);
}

private function doSomething(foooolean):Void {
trace(this); // this = your class instance, aka all your members are accesible
}

k, tips for you rule my world

Michael, you're officially my best friend, ever! Can't wait until January...

and if you're looking for the URL Michael was talking about in post #2, here it is:

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Man I am so far down on the code totem pole.