I was reminded about the flash.sampler API by Grant Skinner’s recent post about it. While only available in the debug player, it can still tell us some valuable information about what goes on in the release player. Today I’m using the getSize function to find out how much memory overhead various classes impose, even when they are empty.
Posts Tagged shape
Shape vs. Sprite
Oct 26
Flash 9 and AS3 provide a lot of nice structure that Flash 8 and AS2 lacked. Instead of just MovieClip and TextField, we have a whole hierarchy of DisplayObject derivatives, including MovieClip and TextField. Most AS3 programmers know that Sprite is a more efficient class than MovieClip and have grown to use them when animation is not required. However, I find that very few AS3 programmers ever use some of the other, more obscure DisplayObject derivatives. Today I’ll talk a little about one of them: Shape.
