ActionScript 3.0 :: GC Has Become Less Automatic And Less Frequent?
Aug 8, 2009
I've been reading up on GC in AS3, I understand how it works now, and how I should go about things, nullifying all references, weak references, avoiding circular references etc (I tend to have circular references now I think about it).
How does the GC in AS2 work in comparison? How often is GC activated in both environments?
And is performance the reason that the AS3 GC has become less automatic and less frequent?
In AS2 presumably it's having to do far more scans and more frequently, thus being more of an overhead?
How does the delete keyword differ in AS3 compared to AS2? I know many people used null in AS2. I tended to use delete for onEnterFrame events and instances of classes no longer being used, then just remove for movieclips obviously.
I've been working with Flash CS5 for the last few months, using it for animation, on an iMac 2.0Ghz, 1GB RAM, Mac OS 10.6; Once the files start becoming heavy Flash starts acting up, crashing frequently, freezing up, and takes too long to save (almost a minute or more!) I've been told that Adobe products aren't working 100% with Snow Leopard; is this normal? i have all the updates, both from Apple and Adobe; Is there any kind of bug fix, any of the sort that I can download?
I've decided to make a start on a new platformer and I was wondering specifically how each of you programmers would go about handling multiple frequent collisions between the player and level/environment. At the moment I'm quite proud of this [URL] Here the player is using a single if statement as follows to check for hit detection.
I have a flash project that's implementing a simple two player game. I have added an enterFrame function to my main movie which listens for keyboard activity in order to move a cowboy gunslinger. Whenever the cowboy moves, I send a message over a socket to a server which dispatches the movement to the other connected client. This works pretty well, however, the movement messages tend to arrive in clumps which results in jumpy animation of my cowboy on my opponents screen and jumpy animation of his cowboy on my screen. To illustrate, i put a trace in my enterFrame function because I am imagining that this function will run roughly once each time my main movie renders the screen. I also put a trace statement in my function that responds to network traffic and moves the remote player's cowboy on my screen. Here's the output:
handling multiple frequent collisions between the player and level/environment. At the moment I'm quite proud of this [URL]. Here the player is using a single if statement as follows to check for hit detection.
(This has a slight problem as the player can only be touching one ground at any time and this loops through all of them it ends up making the player fall through the ground anyway.)
I've been making a short movie. It contains some tweens (both shape and motion). I want the movie to automaticly pause at a specific moment (which bisects multiple tweens) and for a button to appear to contine the movie
/*This creates a new timer object, that fires every 1000 milliseconds (each second), and will fire 10 times after it is started, then stop. Next we will create an event listener that will catch the Timer event, and call a function "changeText".*/
var alienTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000,10) // declare an integer that starts the timer at 10! this shows the seconds left on the timer var secondsLeft:int = 10;[code]................
I've been making a short movie. It contains some tweens (both shape and motion). I want the movie to automaticly pause at a specific moment (which bisects multiple tweens) and for a button to appear to contine the movie. I am completly new to flash and will have to have everything spoon fed to me.
When I instantiate a new object I want the object to automatically be named the same as the name used in the instantiation.var fred:Person=new Person();trace(fred.name); // traces "fred"Is there a reference I can use in the Person constructor to do this?
public class Person extends MovieClip { public function Person() { name = ??? // what goes here? }}
Why didn't my Flash version change after I invoked the update alert on 08/12/10. I had V 10.1.53.64 and your website shows the latest recommended to be V 10.1.82.76. After the update it shows mine still unchanged.
My system particulars are: XP SP2 32 bit IE V6.0.2900 32 bit
I'm new to the world of as3. I was wondering if it was at all possible to have the UIloader load my external images with automatic fading transitions . I have searched the internet, and have found a few methods that include xml files, but I was wondering if there was a simpler method that used code that could have the same effect when directed to the source location.
I'm having a problem with flash that every time I load my website flash flash plays an automatic preloader (three black cricles flashing) that stays on top of my preloader and I was wondering if there is any way of disabiling it.
I need to create a flv file that change automaticaly his dimension if I modify the dimension of the window of the browser. Is that possible? which is the right way to do this? Is there a tutorial?
i am working in application of twitter in flex 3 and action script 3, this in the text area when the user write my application automatically change http address to a short address but i don't know find the address within the text
I have the following scrip below, where I call some images through an XML, and create a gallery that every 3 seconds it moves to left, passing the pictures automatically. But my images are of different sizes in width, the height is the same.
var dados:XML = new XML(); dados.ignoreWhite = true; dados.load("xml/" + _root.xmlport);
In the windows environment I believe it is possible to use UDP broadcast to allow apps to easily communicate without spcifing the IP address.
For example a presentation running on one computer/projector, and then several tablets with a ui to control it. No matter what local wifi (on change of loaction) is used the apps are able to communicate, without any further setup other than joing the network.
How can this be accomplished using TCP (or other method) so that I can keep cross platform and mobile compatibility. Without the need to specify the IP addresses of the device/app?
The one on the right under 'Add To Basket'I dont know where to start and I am a complete noob :-( asically I need it to be the same as that one,For example lets say today is Monday and it is 9pm It should say 1 hour left for delivery on Tuesday... But if it is Monday 10.01pm I need it to say 23hrs 59mins for delivery on WednesdayNow the trickier part is because there is no delivery on Sunday if on a friday night past 10pm I need it to say 47hrs 59mins for delivery on Monday...I hope that makes sense... I managed to find the file they use to process their countdown , but because I am a noob and there is a load of other bumf in the file I dont know what to keep and delete
I am going to use the automatic slide show that is explained in this site for my dad's website (I've used it in the past and it's great!) and I would like to know if the images can faded out as well as faded in. Basically, I want to have a seemless, progressbar-less, slide show with pictures that fade in and fade out. This is going to be used for a wedding photography site by the way.
I know that this tutorialas been here for a long time, but I started using it just now. It works fine, although I need to have the slides animate automatically.
I have a problem where my images are not fully displaying their dimensions (cannot see the whole image). How can I have the image being loaded scale to the properties of the holder? Would the whole image show properly, if I were to make the images the same size as the holder via photoshop?
I assumed, that once you've brought in the image it would scale automatically? I am loading these via XML. So now, I will need a way to scale each of the loaded images to match that of the holder.
I have a slideshow of images tweeneing in and out. I have buttons also where a user can control which image they view.
The slideshow is running automatically. I'm trying to figure out how to fade out whatever image is viewable and load the correct image once the button is clicked.I have made the button work and stop the slideshow from running but I need to know how to fade out whatever image is viewable and then tween in the correct image.
function OneClick (e:MouseEvent) {TweenLite.to(button, 1, {x:254, overwrite:false});myTimelineImages.stop();myTimelineButton.stop();};
On my homepage I want a video and when the video has ended, the user gets redirected to the next page. So far I've got my video in flv format, imported it into Flash CS4 and the added video control thing. I've then exported the movie and imported it into Dreamweaver CS3. I can get it working on my website.
I have a bunch of Flash (.fla) files where I need to convert all absolute (root) target paths in timeline scripts to relevant relative ones. Doing it manually in Flash CS4 is very tedious work and using "replace" action is tedious too as there are multiple nested timelines. Is there any way to automate this task?
