Comments on: [Learn] AS2 to AS3 EnterFrame events

By: mindfocker

mindfocker — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:02:10 +0000

Yeah, sorry about that. Like I’ve said on the post, it was what I understood when starting out learning AS3.. I got confused.
I just forgot about this post over the months.. Thanks for clearing this up WORMSS.
Again, I apologize for the confusion.
I’ll edit this post later when I get home. Cheers!

By: WORMSS

WORMSS — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:15:53 +0000

Sorry to say this, but you have actually Missed the whole point of the new addEventListener in AS3
…
function moveBox(e:Event):void {
this.x += 1; // WRONG
}
box.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, moveBox);

you are not Moving the Box, You are moving the Timeline/Class Object

in as3, ‘this’ ALWAYS refers to the Timeline/Class and does not change depending on the object calling the event.
to reference the object you use “e.target” [or "e.currentTarget"] // there are differences which I wont go into.

By: mindfocker

mindfocker — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:40:45 +0000

Hi Noah, which version are you talking about, AS2 or AS3?

By: Noah

Noah — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:56:34 +0000

Hey, sorry but is this code a little wrong? Cuz when I try it out, ‘this’ refers to the MainTimeline, not the object… :S