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March 16, 2009

Are your event handlers bad?

Event handlers can be bad. They're not intrinsically bad - that's how shit gets done in AS3. It's the way they often get written that can be bad. Consider the following example:
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Actionscript:

package

{

    import fl.motion.Color;

    import flash.display.DisplayObject;

    import flash.display.Sprite;

    import flash.events.Event;

    import flash.events.MouseEvent;

    public class Nothing [...]