Tips

Ditch Events!

How many objects have only one listener? ActionScript has an amazingly functional event model. For many uses it is the most appropriate option. But at the same time it does have a performance overhead and can easily get the garbage [...]

Quick AS3 tip: find out where a function was called from

Quick AS3 tip: find out where a function was called from

If you’re relying on this with your regular production code, you’re probably going about your craft in a very, very backwards fashion. But sometimes when your are debugging or, like in my case, writing a logging application it is helpful [...]