Posts tagged as 'Learning'

Garbage Collection

I recently received a support query on Flint regarding garbage collection. In discussions on the forum I was reminded that many Actionscript developers don’t know how the Flash Player’s garbage collection works…

Posted on 12 August 2008 | 1 comment | continue reading

The parentheses operator

It’s not uncommon for less experienced Actionscript developers, particularly self-taught developers, to be a little confused about the purpose of the parentheses you put after a function name when calling the function. The most common question is why aren’t the parentheses used when assigning a function as an event handler?…

Posted on 16 July 2008 | 3 comments | continue reading

Using uint as a loop iterator

It took me some time to track down this bug in some code recently. I post it here to help others avoid the error. It’s obvious once you see it…

Posted on 21 November 2007 | 2 comments | continue reading