Comments on “Array sorting”

1. Yeah, that’s really cool. I think Senocular has posted some examples there: http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/as3withflashcs3/?page=2

   Og2t on October 17th, 2007 at 4:59 am

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   getswfy » Blog Archive » ActionScript 3.0 Array SortOn on October 17th, 2007 at 12:18 pm

3. cool tip thanks guys :)

   Ben Cline on October 22nd, 2007 at 1:37 am

4. The problem of sorting movieclips in AS2 is because the “_y”,”_x” stuff are not movieclips real parameters. The getter and setter functions mess up the whole thing. You can write your own comparing rule then apply it to just sort. That will solve the problem.
   http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary068.html

   5566 on October 23rd, 2007 at 10:28 pm

5. The problem with _x an _y in AS2 is what the numeric buddy said!
   The trick is to write a compare function like this
   //Priority for whom is in the top
   //Return -1 for “a” 1 for “b” and 0 for a “tie”
   function compare(a,b)
   {
   var ida:Number a.id //Some Comparing Key
   var idb:Number b.id //Some Comparing Key
   var ay:Number = a._y;
   var by:Number = b._y;

   if(ida>idb)
   {
   if(ayby)
   {
   var t:Number = a._y;
   a._y=b._y;
   b._y = t;
   }
   return 1;
   }

   return 0;
   }

   Eduardo on October 30th, 2007 at 5:04 pm