Comments on: Is AS3 Ready For Prime-Time? (part 2)

By: Lanny

Lanny — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:53:10 +0000

Flex needs a container class due to all the extra functionality such as styles, constraints, etc that Flex needs to do its advanced layout management.

This is much easier than maintaining your own child list:
function getChildren():Array {
var children:Array = [];
for (var i:int=0; i children.push(getChildAt(i);
}
return children;
}

By: taterboy

taterboy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:04:49 +0000

That certainly is simple and sweat, thanks.

By: Ian Ford

Ian Ford — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:55:21 +0000

Is this not an adequate solution for removing all the children of a MovieClip? It’s not a native method, but it’s still only 3 lines of code (and perhaps only 1 if you don’t care for readability).

while (some_clip.numChildren > 0) {
some_clip.removeChildAt(0);
}