Comments on: Array Ordering in ActionScript 3 http://coderhump.com/archives/322 Game Development Technology, in Flash and Elsewhere Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:35:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Ben Garney http://coderhump.com/archives/322/comment-page-1#comment-45 Ben Garney Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:17:18 +0000 http://coderhump.com/?p=322#comment-45 I filed a bug about this for the Tamarin VM team: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472340" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47...</a> I filed a bug about this for the Tamarin VM team: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47...

]]> By: Ben Garney http://coderhump.com/archives/322/comment-page-1#comment-43 Ben Garney Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:34:22 +0000 http://coderhump.com/?p=322#comment-43 In this case, I'm using a serialization system to fill the array, and it's easier to make (or borrow) an Array-compatible class that preserves the order than it is to change the serialization system.<br><br>In a more general context, PHP lets you have ordered associative arrays, and it's quite useful - you often store results from a database indexed by primary key and ordered by the order your SQL query returned them, for instance. Maybe having a built-in way to do that in Flash would be helpful (even if the default Array doesn't).<br><br>I wish they would document what WILL be in order and what won't, though. That's part of what cost me two days to fix this problem. In this case, I'm using a serialization system to fill the array, and it's easier to make (or borrow) an Array-compatible class that preserves the order than it is to change the serialization system.

In a more general context, PHP lets you have ordered associative arrays, and it's quite useful – you often store results from a database indexed by primary key and ordered by the order your SQL query returned them, for instance. Maybe having a built-in way to do that in Flash would be helpful (even if the default Array doesn't).

I wish they would document what WILL be in order and what won't, though. That's part of what cost me two days to fix this problem.

]]> By: Rob http://coderhump.com/archives/322/comment-page-1#comment-42 Rob Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:28:36 +0000 http://coderhump.com/?p=322#comment-42 Interesting observation about the atom ordering...but if a specific order is important to your code, why not push/unshift your transitions into a second (tightly-packed) array as they're initialized, then iterate over that one? Or maybe drop a marker variable onto your ITransition type and have the Transitions work as a linked list? Interesting observation about the atom ordering…but if a specific order is important to your code, why not push/unshift your transitions into a second (tightly-packed) array as they're initialized, then iterate over that one? Or maybe drop a marker variable onto your ITransition type and have the Transitions work as a linked list?

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