ActionScript 3.0 :: Wait For Several Asychronous Tasks
May 25, 2011
I quite often find myself needing to wait until a bunch of things have happened, for instance, wait until I get an Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, an Event.COMPLETE from a URLLoader loading up XML and an Event.COMPLETE from a Loader fetching some assets.
I have no idea and don't really care in what order these things will happen, I just want to know when the last one has happened. I have used various tactics to deal with this - none of them have yet felt "right" or "good".
Is there a standard pattern or solution for organising multiple listeners like this?
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