Actionscript 3 :: AddEventListeners And Best Practices?
Jul 16, 2011I'm using this simple code to retrieve a value from a PHP script:
package
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
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Now i can put all my code in the main class again and make another 1000 line code with a couple of other small classes but this time i want to do it right so what am i doing wrong? Heres some code too
This is the main class dressUp is the game class, it doesnt do much just define the game class and change the mouse pointer.
EDIT: We work in a project group so another reason i want to make alot classes is so we can work on different classes separately. But i promised to have this done this weekend and there not so good in actionscript either.
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package
{
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