Archive for August, 2004

Using a preloader with v2 components

I’ve finally nailed down a good way to use a preloader with Flash Player 7 movies that use the v2 component framework.

Using a static initializer in AS2.0

Some design patterns require the use of a static initializer, a block of code that should execute once and only once the first time a class is referred to. The typical use for this pattern in ActionScript programming is when a mix-in class needs to be used, as in the case of the mx.events.EventDispatcher class. [...]