ActionScript 3.0 :: Structuring A Preloader Class Around A Button Event
Apr 26, 2010
I'm putting together a portfolio site in the external method of using a document class structure.
Of the classes I have involved thus far include:
:: Master.as
and a
:: Intro.as
The Master class loads the Intro class (and others as well). The Intro class has the button event to trigger the Preloader. However, I want the button to trigger the Preloader as a separate class. Meaning, I don't want to build the entire function set inside the Intro class. I'm trying to build everything around the Master class and not go of in a tangent based around one event.
The problem I'm having is passing variable instance information in the Intro class to an external class whether it's a Preloader or otherwise.
I see tutorials for Preloaders, but how do people incorporate them into a pre-existing class structure? That is, in a modular fashion so I could re-use the Preloader class somewhere else? What's a common structure philosophy that's used to pass info?
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