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1. Well - lots of the stuff I do have animations in movieclips and other 
things which can't be created with the drawing API. So lots of my stuff 
is taylor made to suit a particular job. So if I have to make a video 
player, it's easier just to stick and FLVplayer instance in a movieClip, 
stick some buttons in there and drop it on the stage. I could put all 
the code in an imported bunch of classes - but it's likely that next 
time I do a video player, it will by made differently - so unless I make 
an OOP video player that encompasses every possible use I could have for 
it, It would be quicker to just copy and paste some code and amend it.

I don't really make applications (where I can see OOP would be really 
useful)

2. Am I right in thinking that those frameworks are just big sets of 
classes - when using them, do you just use the methods of the provided 
classes or do you extend the classes?

Juan


Jon Bennett wrote:
>> Yeah - as little as possible on the timeline - but unless you've
>> unlimited time and money to work on projects endlessly you can't really
>> put every single thing in classes (it would be good for reusability, but
>> it would take ages - I'm guessing).
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> I dunno, for a long time now I've been doing things without any code
> on the timeline, save for the odd 'this.stop()', what kinds of things
> are you putting on the timeline?
>
>   
>> anyway - thanks for those links to those frameworks - but that just
>> makes my life more complicated (something else to learn).
>>     
>
> ahh, well, I've found them a good route into extending my knowledge of
> OOP in Flash, even if you only spend a couple of days with one.
>
> jb
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