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At 10/15/14 11:01 AM, MintPaw wrote: First of all Jesus Gimmick, I don't think I've seen you here for years.

Yeah, I kind of stayed away from these forums because I was...IDK. It all seemed a bit intimidating is the best I could put it. Learned AS3 in the meantime from that Colin Moock book (Learning AS3), and picked up on stuff here and there. Never really did much stuff in AS3 because I kept hitting mental blocks.

It's good to be back! :D

Secondly, obviously registering an eventListener, dispatching an event, and catching it when it bubbles up to the correct place is going to take longer that just calling the function.

Uh huh. Is it a good way of communicating to classes / instances of classes indirectly, though?

Also if you understand garbage collection then you know that eventListeners hold objects in memory. The e.target property contains the dispatching object whether you want it to or not, meaning you could also accidentally hold the dispatcher in memory too. This must be because a reference is stored within the listener. Which again we will never know exactly how it works.

Gotcha. Removing event listeners would make it available for GC, right?

In day-to-day use the event system is pretty solid, but if you were building a large scope, high efficiency game. I wouldn't throw those extra variables in.
TL;DR: No it's not 100% the best way to code, but the alternatives either take a lot of time or create other worse problems.

Cool, got it. Thanks!

At 10/15/14 09:49 AM, Monster-64 wrote: You lazy son of a bitch.

Isn't laziness what 'murica stands for anyways

Another perk: Possible ad rev like a splash "continue to the page" with an ad on it, like Forbes or so.

At 10/14/14 04:12 PM, BrenTheMan wrote:

At 10/14/14 01:34 PM, Gimmick wrote: I'm quite a lazy sonuvabitch and so instead of typing username.newgrounds.com

Bookmarks?

I don't want to bookmark all the users on this site, thanks :p

At 10/15/14 08:53 AM, Radaketor wrote: And i thought i was lazy.

There's always someone lazier. Always. Like an unwritten rule of life.

At 10/15/14 08:31 AM, NGPulp wrote: Short addresses always have an aura of danger, suspicion and mystery to them, don't they?

Any URL has that. If a normal URL shows something like "/portal/view/<number" and the short one shows "/mov/<number>" then I wouldn't have much reason to doubt it. I very much doubt Admin&Co would be nefarious enough to do that. Although it'd be fun for Halloween.

for the admins

At 10/15/14 01:17 AM, SentForMe wrote:

At 10/15/14 01:05 AM, bulabog wrote: what do you think will come after the internet has no longer been a novelty?

Brain-Net. You plug your brain directly into the network, a la the Matrix.

Butt-net. You plug your butt directly into the network, a la the Buttrix.

At 10/15/14 04:21 AM, Rustygames wrote: Nah you can bundle air with the app. It means the app is slightly bigger but these days apps are huge anyway, no one really cares about size.

And FYI for iOS you don't even have a choice, you have to bundle air with the app

Ah, good to know.

At 10/15/14 01:39 AM, Ehronaut wrote: And don't worry. I really don't believe that I will become famous

Not with that attitude! I said "when", not "if".

At 10/15/14 04:03 AM, Fubaka wrote: Oh, and to answer your question, The object in question is a firefly, and isn't moving very fast at all.

That's the "down" frame, what's it like in the "hit" frame?

At 10/15/14 01:22 AM, VJF wrote: Aren't all humans self centered themselves no matter how much they try to prove they aren't?

Doesn't that depend on how Insanctuarian they are?

At 10/15/14 01:19 AM, Xenomit wrote: A high school teacher

A teacher of high school

oh
carry on

Potato?

because everyone's gonna name tomato

None.

At 10/15/14 12:44 AM, Xenomit wrote: I was in love with a high school teacher from new jersey

wait wait wait
were you in love with a high school teacher or a high school teacher?

At 10/14/14 02:56 PM, beheadedbymuslims wrote: be happy you aren't indian.

...fuck.

At 10/14/14 11:14 PM, Coinboi wrote: Leg hair wasn't invented by Albert Einstein you dumbass, God created the human body

checkmate atheists xddd

At 10/15/14 12:46 AM, swishcheese wrote: Good to note. Yeah i thought that was a thing. And yeah... since AIR probably not that common to have for the average user people probably wont go through with it.

OTOH whenever a user installs an app that requires AIR to run, a popup asks the user if they want to download AIR to play that. Not sure if it's going to be worth it, though. Some have complained about the bloatiness of AIR and power consumption, two things that aren't readily testable.

Exams sucks. Sorry to hear that. And for your projects, i find that meditation helps me a lot when in the zone of lack of motivation. clears the head and problems start getting solved and results start springing up. maybe just me, but focusing on my breathe for 5 mins then good to go.

Thanks, I'll give it a go when I can.

At 10/15/14 12:16 AM, swishcheese wrote: Are there down sides to using AIR? And can haxe do it better for going on iphone, android, and flash?

Don't really know about haxe but AFAIK any game made in flash that targets AIR for android and so on would require a user to download Adobe AIR for Android if they want to play it. May have changed in the meantime, though; however I wouldn't count on users downloading a separate application just to play your application.

Anyways, what is everyone else up to these days? cool projects, life choices, jobs, family and kids?

Exams currently going on for me and coming up soon, can't seem to get any projects finished for some reason or the other. I've got a really "good" project on hold right now, just because of some stupid excuse. Whenever I work on it I just lose the motivation to do so after a few hours just because I don't see expected results.

At 10/14/14 11:00 PM, MintPaw wrote: No, it can be slightly unorganized, try to avoid events when you can, I'm sure you know how sloppy and annoying they can be.

I'm afraid I don't, what problems do events pose?

At 10/15/14 12:23 AM, MSGhero wrote: stuff

Sweet, thanks!

Think about it. Passing your "hazing" means you're in some way worthy of being "in the club" or "in tha hood"; kind of like an initiation, where the weak bail out and the "strong" carry on through.

Why is it that whenever there are new users, there'd be some who'd haze them (even though the majority of the reactions are positive) telling the user to leave the site and so on. Why do they do that? It could be a combination of seeing whether they're ready for the site, or having a sense of power, or both. IDK.

And no I didn't read the article.

Having found out that flash was preemptively declared dead by who the fuck knows precisely, I decided to install Haxe and OpenFL. After sorting out a few errors in FlashDevelop and Haxe, I have some questions:

1) Where do I actually learn Haxe comprehensively? Some tutorials I've seen just show some of the syntax and other stuff.

2) What do I do when there's multiple types of a similar class in a project? For example, there's openfl.vector and haxe.ds.vector if I remember correctly, is one better than the other or is it just better to use haxe.ds.array or the like?

3) Is there any performance hit in haxe and openfl as there is in flash? For example, using static classes and so on.

4) Is it bad that there's no true "private" in haxe?

Sorry if these questions seem a bit noobish, I should know better.

At 10/14/14 01:30 PM, TomFulp wrote: Would be cool to do a THEN and NOW screening...
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/316541
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/646774

Tom, don't forget the elephants in the room. The THEN screening would (and should) have a lot of Meet n' Fuck games and the like.

Hi new guy. Your name looks very similar to Chronamut, you're not one of his alts are you?
Also if you leave NG for Youtube when you become famous, I will strangle you in my mind

At 10/6/14 08:46 AM, Lorkas wrote: EDIT: Woah we can edit posts?

yes

At 10/14/14 12:04 PM, aListers wrote: My dad? I haven't seen him since I was about 4. Apparently he's tax dodging in some other country right now. I don't really care about him enough to hate him.

Apathy: worse than hate.

I'm quite a lazy sonuvabitch and so instead of typing username.newgrounds.com I made a keyboard shortcut on my Android device to append a .newgrounds.com at the cursor. However, that got me thinking: Just like twitter's, google's and some other url shortening services (not like bitly though), it'd be easier to have shorter domain names that would redirect to the user's page or somesuch. Nothing more than a novelty, but it'd help the fat asses in us all.

Things like, say:

ng.us/username
username.ng.us
find.us/username
username.find.us

It could also redirect to portal entries, be it art, audio, game or movie portals.

ng.us/mov/entry
art.ng.us/entry

etcetera etcetera.

Whaddya think?

You're using x64, so it's not a memory addressing issue. Clear. However...

Hmm...since you've got 2 2GB sticks, it can recognize both of them...maybe one of the sticks is bad. Try booting into the BIOS and checking whether it says that you've got 4GB RAM. Alternatively, open up your computer properties (Start >> My Computer >> Properties in the right click/context menu) and see if it says "4GB RAM (3GB Usable)" there.

My computer has 2 GB of RAM but it says "1.59 GB usable", I'm guessing that is because my graphics card is an integrated AMD something-or-other that uses 512 MB of RAM as well (from the system, not its own dedicated RAM). If your computer shows "4GB (3GB Usable)" or the like, check your graphics card specs. If it's integrated / not dedicated, then that's probably the issue and thus nothing to worry about. If your graphics card is dedicated, though, then it might be time to look into new RAM sticks. But first, test each of them by removing one of them and seeing the usable RAM.

At 10/14/14 12:32 PM, AtlasTheGaurdian wrote: Rams are sexy, they have cute horns and tight butts :3

Quality post right thar m8 :^)

At 10/14/14 12:44 PM, Barzona wrote: I'm not exactly sure of the rules, but if you don't specify what you are adding the listener to, I'd imagine it's the parent that calls the function that it is added to by default. If you're initializing the mouse event in your document class, I'd assume that the document class is what it's attached to.

Basically this AFAIK.

package
{
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    public class Foo extends Sprite()
    {
        public function Foo(){
        {
            addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);
        }
        private function onClick(evt:MouseEvent):void
        {
            trace("Fired");
        }
    }
}

It would call only when an instance of Foo somewhere on the display list is clicked. It wouldn't fire when the stage was clicked.

If that's correct, it wouldn't recognize a mouse click because you never add the document class to the stage. Again, i could be completely wrong about that.

Is it OK to add ADDED_TO_STAGE event listeners to the document class? Because I may be in for a surprise here...

Aw man, can't attend MAGFest.

aw man, that sucks so much...and the title just makes it all the more strange

Bend over you pansy. You have it easy with your high bandwidth caps.

At 10/9/14 11:46 PM, FinaLee wrote: If I could, I would rip a giant hole in the ozone right where Florida is so I can soak up the Sun all year.

Enjoy your skin cancer brah
it's on the house