Comments on: Events manager AS3 classes

By: vi

vi — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 09:56:39 +0000

thanks for the classes. i don’t see an immediate use in my projects, but i’m sure i’ll be using it soon.

By: Donkey

Donkey — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:21:45 +0000

Thanx for the code Thomas John, went in easy and works a treat

By: Thomas John

Thomas John — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:33:23 +0000

Hi,

there is no .fla, the sample program is actually made from pure code with the help of FlashDevelop (see links on the right).
Sorry if I don’t share the code of this sample movie, I just don’t feel like doing so. Hope you understand. But all you need to understand how to use this events manager class is on this page. Good luck.

By: Davisete

Davisete — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:00:24 +0000

Hello Im a newbie in actionscript i need to open the fla because i can put to view send to functions buttons to class. You can upload the fla ?
Thanks for listen to me.

By: Thomas John

Thomas John — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:37:43 +0000

No, don’t think so. Or maybe… you know, with all those theoretical stuff one might just be using it without even noticing it.
Anyway, it all depends on the projects one is working on and I don’t think that kind of thing suits me for the kind of project I’m working on…

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:17:12 +0000

do you use that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_view_controller

By: Thomas John

Thomas John — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:34:05 +0000

Mhhhhh…I’m not following you there… sorry I guess my english is not that good… this event manager does handle all kind of events. I just believe that some things are better when kept separate. It’s not for one more line of code. I mean, you will always be able to write a class that manages everything in just one line of code, but then what ?
Anyway, I’m probably not understanding you right.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:58:40 +0000

What about sound, security, error, netstatus events? If you have an abstract manager to handle all kind of events, not only display objects events, maybe you want a way back from the manager for the suspending/resuming/removing part - what do you think?

so here is maybe a good idea to pass an optional “function” as a parameter for the suspend/resume/remove method. this is what a manager does right? linking stuff together and call the right methods in each situation?

By: Thomas John

Thomas John — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:14:43 +0000

yeah but then you’re gonna write a class that’s going to handle too many things.
I prefer too keep things separate. Events with events, display objects with display objects, …
But yeah, I understand your point of view, in some simple websites, this can be useful.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:44:13 +0000

I’m looking for new advanced flexible ways how to add() with less casting (EventDispatcher as Object as Array as ..) the “… list” operator is a really good one, but is lacking the typechecking, the only downside - you have to do it for yourself manually.

Manager.add({instance: button,
events: [CLICK, OVER, OUT],
mapTo: [clickHandler, overHandler, outHandler],
info: „page1“});

would save some more lines

if you want to disable/suspend listeners of a button, you maybe want to disable the button visually, too - since your manager knows all the buttons for group1 already, why don’t let him do it (instead of btn1.alpha = 0.25; btn2.alpha = 0.25; …. btn8.alpha = 0.25;)

however I appreciate your work

cheers.