Category Archives: Events

Using Callback Commands instead of Events

By Uwe Holland | Published: 26. September 2009

Recently I’ve read posts about the speed advantages of callbacks over events on the blogs of Troy Gilbert and Jackson Dustan. But instead of using a strategy like stated in the comment here we use something which we call CallbackCommand and relies to the command pattern. It’s some kind of proxy command to call methods [...]

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AS3: TimelineEvent, LabelEvent, FrameEvent

By Uwe Holland | Published: 23. May 2009

I know it’s an old subject but I didn’t use the combination of AS3 and timeline animations for my projects so far.
Coming from Big Spaceship, Adobe DevNet / TimelineWatcher and Bytearray.org I wanted a clean solution to recognize FrameLabels on a timeline without using EnterFrame (which fails if you want to address newly instantiated timeline [...]