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This is the nesting the ifs is the fastest way to do it.

if(_root.contact2 == true) {
     if(hitTest(_root.next)) {
          _root.nextFrame();
     }
}

Also,

= is for assigning
== is for checking equality

nope it wasnt the variable lol, i had everything backwards and now it works, cause i tried it that way with the old variable too XD

thats ok Shirk

nope it wasnt the variable lol, i had everything backwards and now it works, cause i tried it that way with the old variable too XD

Ah, ok then xD

thats ok Shirk

Or is it.. : O

At 6/3/08 05:53 PM, Nuggs wrote: This is the nesting the ifs is the fastest way to do it.

In what way is it faster?

At 6/3/08 05:54 PM, GuyWithHisComp wrote: Also,

= is for assigning
== is for checking equality

Thanks GWHC, i understand that now. And Nuggs or whatever, you just copied the code and you said it lol

At 6/3/08 06:02 PM, GuyWithHisComp wrote:

At 6/3/08 05:53 PM, Nuggs wrote: This is the nesting the ifs is the fastest way to do it.

In what way is it faster?

Read this article

Here

9) Using nested if
Whenever using complex conditional expressions you can optimize the code by breaking them into single nested conditions.
This way you don't have to evaluate all the expressions all the times.
The following code is what we used for the benchmark: even if the conditional expressions are pretty simple the speed increse is significant.
Also you can notice that the expression that evaluates as false is in 3rd position, so you may even get better performance when it is placed in 2nd or 1st position.

MAX = 20000
a = 1
b = 2
c = -3
d = 4

var i=MAX
while(--i > -1)
{
	if (a == 1 && b == 2 && c == 3 && d == 4)
	{
		var k = d * c * b * a
	}
}


var i=MAX
while(--i > -1)
{
	if (a == 1)
	{
		if (b == 2)
		{
			if (c == 3)
			{
				if (d == 4)
				{
					var k = d * c * b * a
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

At 6/3/08 07:16 PM, Nuggs wrote:

At 6/3/08 06:02 PM, GuyWithHisComp wrote:

At 6/3/08 05:53 PM, Nuggs wrote: This is the nesting the ifs is the fastest way to do it.

In what way is it faster?

Read this article

I just tested it out and it does make a small speed improvement.

But not for the reason they say.

Flash does not evaluate all expressions just because they are nested in the same statement.

Try

function a():Boolean
{
	trace("a");
	return false;
}
function b():Boolean
{
	trace("b");
	return true;
}

( a() && b() );

And you'll see only a() is evaluated because it returns false.

Argh stop talking about efficiency with AS2. It's a useless argument. AFTER ALL, it took me three days to come up with a more efficient interpreter with no experience. That was recursive. Srsly.