ActionScript 3.0 :: Critique Class - Add Some Common Functionality?
Feb 5, 2010
I've extended Sprite to add some common functionality - this is a generic class I use in most of my real-world applications.Everything "works", but I'm curious if there's anything I'm doing that could be done better, or if there are common tasks that should be included that aren't, or if there are members that aren't really that handy and perhaps could be omitted.
For example, there are several members to handle display-list traversal - I've kind of gone back-and-forth on this, and various versions have had methods to remove all siblings, or retrieve an array of elderSiblings and youngerSiblings,etc,but that seemed a little overboard so have been removed.The offsetWidth and offsetHeight are inelegant at best (so clumsy in fact I'm really leaning toward removing them entirely), but AFAIK there's no other way to get back the "true" height/width of an object whose first child is not a position 0.Also I'm curious about the event management overrides. I've run these on several commercial applications and have found them both useful and without any obvious drawbacks, but have never seen anyone else do anything similar,
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