Comments on: Never Ever Use Tween or URLLoader or Loader or Timer or… http://exanimo.com/actionscript/never-use-tween-or-urlloader/ where matthew tretter types stuff Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:50:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: max http://exanimo.com/actionscript/never-use-tween-or-urlloader/#comment-1387 max Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:32:31 +0000 http://exanimo.com/actionscript/never-use-tween-or-urlloader/#comment-1387 the note abouts tweens getting garbage collected saved my recent flash project. thank you so much! the note abouts tweens getting garbage collected saved my recent flash project. thank you so much!

]]> By: Danno http://exanimo.com/actionscript/never-use-tween-or-urlloader/#comment-1332 Danno Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:15:34 +0000 http://exanimo.com/actionscript/never-use-tween-or-urlloader/#comment-1332 I can't thank you enough for this. absolutely awesome. Rocksteady, Danno~ I can't thank you enough for this. absolutely awesome.

Rocksteady,
Danno~

]]> By: matthew http://exanimo.com/actionscript/never-use-tween-or-urlloader/#comment-1239 matthew Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:18:38 +0000 http://exanimo.com/actionscript/never-use-tween-or-urlloader/#comment-1239 @Daniel Yeah, I agree. When I wrote this article I was WAY overzealous about pimping my code. Truth be told, I haven't used these classes in... well I don't even know how long. I've been meaning to update this article for ages now. Thanks for forcing my hand. @Daniel Yeah, I agree. When I wrote this article I was WAY overzealous about pimping my code. Truth be told, I haven't used these classes in… well I don't even know how long. I've been meaning to update this article for ages now. Thanks for forcing my hand.

]]> By: Daniel Dowell http://exanimo.com/actionscript/never-use-tween-or-urlloader/#comment-1237 Daniel Dowell Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:26:58 +0000 http://exanimo.com/actionscript/never-use-tween-or-urlloader/#comment-1237 I must say that even though this seems to cause a lot of headache for a lot of people, your classes are actually causing more harm than good. You are leading yourself and others down a path to non-object oriented programming where you no longer can trust which objects are eligable for GC and which arent. Adobe knew very well what they were doing when they designed AS3 this way. You are supposed to keep track of each Tween or URLLoader and remove the references to them when they are no longer needed. Think about this in an object-oriented way and you will soon understand that objects without parents are a bad idea. Use arrays to store multiple refernces and remove the items that you no longer need when you no longer need them! I must say that even though this seems to cause a lot of headache for a lot of people, your classes are actually causing more harm than good. You are leading yourself and others down a path to non-object oriented programming where you no longer can trust which objects are eligable for GC and which arent. Adobe knew very well what they were doing when they designed AS3 this way. You are supposed to keep track of each Tween or URLLoader and remove the references to them when they are no longer needed. Think about this in an object-oriented way and you will soon understand that objects without parents are a bad idea.

Use arrays to store multiple refernces and remove the items that you no longer need when you no longer need them!

]]> By: Duncan Reid : hy-brid.com » Simple AS3 ToolTip http://exanimo.com/actionscript/never-use-tween-or-urlloader/#comment-1192 Duncan Reid : hy-brid.com » Simple AS3 ToolTip Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:31:01 +0000 http://exanimo.com/actionscript/never-use-tween-or-urlloader/#comment-1192 [...] in lieu of the built in Tweening methods due to problems in the past, you can read more about it on Matthew Tretters Blog as he provides an indepth explanation and examples as to why this might be [...] […] in lieu of the built in Tweening methods due to problems in the past, you can read more about it on Matthew Tretters Blog as he provides an indepth explanation and examples as to why this might be […]

]]> By: Token http://exanimo.com/actionscript/never-use-tween-or-urlloader/#comment-1178 Token Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:16:00 +0000 http://exanimo.com/actionscript/never-use-tween-or-urlloader/#comment-1178 Great work! And great explanation of the problem: I used to think, it was my CPU or memory, being flood with tweens, stopped process some of them...) Great work! And great explanation of the problem: I used to think, it was my CPU or memory, being flood with tweens, stopped process some of them…)

]]> By: Nymite http://exanimo.com/actionscript/never-use-tween-or-urlloader/#comment-1155 Nymite Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:29:36 +0000 http://exanimo.com/actionscript/never-use-tween-or-urlloader/#comment-1155 This is amazing! I'm working on a rather complex project right now (with multiple tweens and loading events happening at the same time) and the classic "tween choke" has been driving me nuts. Your solution has just made my life so much easier. Thank you!:) P.S. You should really place a PayPall "Donate" link somewhere :). This is amazing! I'm working on a rather complex project right now (with multiple tweens and loading events happening at the same time) and the classic "tween choke" has been driving me nuts. Your solution has just made my life so much easier. Thank you!:)

P.S. You should really place a PayPall "Donate" link somewhere :).

]]> By: PerfectlyNormal http://exanimo.com/actionscript/never-use-tween-or-urlloader/#comment-817 PerfectlyNormal Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:30:13 +0000 http://exanimo.com/actionscript/never-use-tween-or-urlloader/#comment-817 Awesome! This problem has been a real pain in the ass for a long time now. Assumed it was I who did something wrong, so never even tried to google for it. Thanks a lot for these fixes Awesome! This problem has been a real pain in the ass for a long time now. Assumed it was I who did something wrong, so never even tried to google for it. Thanks a lot for these fixes

]]> By: Flash Tutorials | AS3 Classes Roundup Part2 | Lemlinh.com http://exanimo.com/actionscript/never-use-tween-or-urlloader/#comment-791 Flash Tutorials | AS3 Classes Roundup Part2 | Lemlinh.com Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:58:41 +0000 http://exanimo.com/actionscript/never-use-tween-or-urlloader/#comment-791 [...] off, I will say that without Matthew Tretter’s garbage collection classes this demo would not be possible…While generating this many “particles” on ENTER_FRAME, the [...] […] off, I will say that without Matthew Tretter’s garbage collection classes this demo would not be possible…While generating this many “particles” on ENTER_FRAME, the […]

]]> By: matt http://exanimo.com/actionscript/never-use-tween-or-urlloader/#comment-707 matt Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:16:27 +0000 http://exanimo.com/actionscript/never-use-tween-or-urlloader/#comment-707 holy moly thank u soooo much yet another example of how either: adobe flash employees are overpaid or macromedia left a legacy of poor code or both regardless....u saved my butt major..... u rulz holy moly
thank u soooo much
yet another example of how either:

adobe flash employees are overpaid
or
macromedia left a legacy of poor code
or
both

regardless….u saved my butt major…..
u rulz

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