• November 27, 2006

    AS3 Kitchen – Timer and ENTER_FRAME

    There is no mc.onEnterFrame in AS3 anymore, but there is something so much better - ENTER_FRAME event! Since pretty much everything in AS3 is event based, that makes perfect sense. There is also a new event based Timer class which replaces darn setInterval. The guru of ActionScripted motion - Keith Peters wrote a great post on subject of common misconceptions in usage.

    AS3 EnterFrame event:

    package {
    import flash.display.*;
    import flash.events.*;
    
    public class TestEnterFrame extends Sprite
    {
    public function TestEnterFrame()
    {
    addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onEnterFrame);
    }
    
    private function onEnterFrame(ev:Event):void
    {
    trace("onenterframe:"+ev);
    }
    }
    
    }
    

    AS3 Timer class test:
    package {
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.events.TimerEvent;
    import flash.utils.getTimer;
    import flash.utils.Timer;
    public class Tests extends Sprite
    {
    private var start:Number;
    public function Tests()
    {
    var timer:Timer = new Timer(1000);
    timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, onTimer);
    start = getTimer();
    timer.start();
    }
    private function onTimer(event:TimerEvent):void
    {
    trace(getTimer() - start);
    start = getTimer();
    for(var i:uint = 0; i 

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