Comments on: Building a Foundation For Your Games and Handling Screens

By: Sidar

Sidar — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:15:05 +0000

Never mind I found it.

sorry =)

By: Sidar

Sidar — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:08:47 +0000

Hi =)

Can you tell where the class StopWatch comes from?
Apparently i can’t find it anywhere.

@Mark,
Download FlashDevelop its like Flex_Builder.
O and its free =).

By: Colby Cheeze

Colby Cheeze — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:11:52 +0000

Thank you! I made the change in my code. Once I release my next article I’ll update it for everyone.

By: Montoya

Montoya — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:24:38 +0000

I changed the following on the Root class:

// these will get updated if a valid stage is passed
public static var WIDTH:Number	=	550;
public static var HEIGHT:Number	=	400;

if( stage==null )
{
	Root.stage = this.stage;
}
else
{
	Root.stage = stage;
	Root.WIDTH = stage.stageWidth;
	Root.HEIGHT = stage.stageHeight;
}

These allow your screens to inherit a stage width & height other than 550/400. There’s still some other problems remaining… like I can’t add event listeners on a screen, because they are not MovieClips But I think I can work around that by making a child of the screen that is a MovieClip.

By: Mark Schmidt

Mark Schmidt — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:59:49 +0000

oops, this is the line I added, is missing from my previous post:

// added this line to get rid of error referencing Main:
var x:Main;

By: Mark Schmidt

Mark Schmidt — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:14:05 +0000

Got it to build and run in Flash CS4 by creating GameFoundation.fla that uses GameFoundation.as as it’s document class, and added the following line right after the stop statement in constructor function GameFoundation().

By: Mark Schmidt

Mark Schmidt — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:58:57 +0000

I too do not have flexbuilder. I’m using Flash CS4 and trying to set up a GameFoundation.fla that uses GameFoundation.as as it’s document class. I get the following run time error:

ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable Main is not defined.
at global/flash.utils::getDefinitionByName()
at GameFoundation/onRootLoaderComplete()

I’m new to flash, not real familiar with the various publish and compile settings. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:08:10 +0000

awesome… i can’t describe it…

By: Tyler Chesley

Tyler Chesley — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:37:35 +0000

Here’s the link to the docs.

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/uint.html

By: Tyler Chesley

Tyler Chesley — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:36:04 +0000

Just for your information, there is a data type called uint in Actionscript 3 that only allows positive integers. So you could do this

public static function set gameSpeed( value:uint ) : void
{
m_gameSpeed = value;
}

public static function get gameSpeed() : uint { return m_gameSpeed; }

and it would only allows values of 0 – n where n is any positive integer.