Comments on: Actionscript 2 utility class: Grid

By: Antti

Antti — Tue, 08 May 2007 09:11:11 +0000

Well of course you calculate the coordinates yourself, move stuff around and so on, but sometimes you want to (or well, i do) check.
A “real world” example: A movieclip doesn’t have it’s anchor point in the middle, but a bit off. This might be because you want to rotate the mc around something that’s not in the middle. If you move the mc, you have to count in that anchor offset, and with the grid you can quickly check it’s correct. Still, if you can’t come up with a reason to use it, you probably don’t need it
It’s not a super useful class but can come in handy, something i wrote in like 5min and thought i’d share with you guys. Also it can just be in the background and you just hit your key to show it when you need it (just remove it when the site goes live)

By: Amit

Amit — Mon, 07 May 2007 22:55:35 +0000

Hi,
that’s very cool, but will you kind enough to give a real world example of when to use it? why not just giving coordinates to object on stage when the screen gets bigger via an event listener, why check/compare it with the grid??

By: Antti

Antti — Sat, 05 May 2007 13:25:46 +0000

Should work now, changed the default key to space.

By: Ola Muldal

Ola Muldal — Sat, 05 May 2007 13:10:29 +0000

Its not working here either (nor IE or Firefox), just a bluescreen

(fp 9.0.45, norwegian keyboard)

By: Antti

Antti — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:10:27 +0000

That’s weird - it works for me. I’m guessing it’s the keycode (i’m not using an american keyboard)? If so, you could just change the default code in the class or do something like this:

Grid.key = Key.SPACE;
Grid.create( );

By: Jon B

Jon B — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 07:42:31 +0000

It doesn’t appear to work with Flash Player 9 - both your example above and the when I test the source .fla (inside flash cs3)