ActionScript 3.0 :: Access The Document Class Directly With A Getter?
Oct 25, 2010
I am start developing small games (I have just finished reading a nice book from Rex van der Spuy) but I would like to use the best OO approach.Let's make a very simple example: suppose that i have a Player class which adds a listener to the stage waiting for keyboard events in order to move around the stage.I have also some enemies on the stage and the player must register a collision with them; what is the best approach in order to access the enemies on the stage and check for a collision with them on the ENTER_FRAME player's event? I have read a lot of solutions, but I am just starting coding and so I don't know which one is the best approach.
a) Access the document class directly with a getter (e.g. Main(root).allEnemies, supposing that every time an enemy is created it is added to the allEnemies array)?
b) A singleton class which has a reference to every instance in the stage?
c) I have read about using events, how?
ActionScript Code:
package
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;[code].....
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