Iphone :: Vectors, Libraries Handling And Generating Or Flash?
Mar 10, 2011
I'd like to port a Flash application to iPhone.I like flash for a lot of reasons and would prefer to use it for content generation. However there are a few downsides I am told, like at least 3.5 MB per app.So while using Flash would make it easier to extend the current pipeline to include iPhone content, I was wondering what other choices are there for dealing with vector assets. I'm looking to bring in assets from Flash (or illustrator) easily, be able to add placeholders that can be replaced, and package them so that they can be updated easily from iOS.
Will most likely end up outsourcing the app creation, but I would like to know what the choices are before deciding what route to go.
So I have the code of two classes (I can't post any actual code as its way too long - even broken up But I can give you a sample of simmilar aspects)
public class ClassA { private var objectString:Vector.<String>; // create a new vector to hold items - this will be passed
[Code]....
Yes I have an understanding of vectors so pointing me to the documentation may be worthless. As I have read it hundred times. I would not be posting here if I didnt. How ever I may have missed something.
Upon debugging this I see that Class A has a vector that now contains one element -> "hello." When I pass that vector on Object container is null. Whats worse is now I return a null vector list and pass on a null vector list and trace should in theory show me null.
In java this is how I would pass vectors and arrays around and I believe some one showed me this is how you do it in actionscript.
I have this question regarding vectors. Is there a way where I can make a generic utility method which would for example, subdivide a vector into two vectors and would be able to handle all types of vectors, whether they contain <int> or <string> or <myClass>
for example:
ActionScript Code: public function splitVectorIntoTwo(v:Vector.<T>):Vector.<Vector.<T>> { var result:Vector.<Vector.<T>> = new Vector.<Vector.<T>>(); //Do logic return result; }
I don't know if this is possible but else it hinders our development quite a bit by using vectors since we can't use some generic utility methods as they will not accept generic vector types and you have to create a specific method for every vector type, one for Vector.<int> one for Vector.<string> etc.... With arrays, since they are not type-safe they can be passed within every such method.
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