Actionscript 3 :: Two MovieClips Sharing The Same Class?
Jan 1, 2012
I have two MovieClip symbols in my library and I want them to share the same class, but Flash doesn't allow me to assign the same class to any two different MC symbols, so instead I created two bogus classes which extend the class I wished to share initially.
So having two MC symbols defined by 2 different classes extending a different class allows me to share the same piece of code.
My Question: is there a better was to share a class between 2 or more different library symbols?
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