Comments on: Silly Adobe…don’t you know? private means private

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:45:03 +0000

i like curly braces on new lines, it makes me feel warm

but this private function with the comments left in does explain a lot about how competent their as coders are… If anyone’s tried to compile a flash component from raw as files with the flex sdk they’ll find a whole load of compile errors and warnings, normally because variable and function return types have been left out. tards.

By: Theo

Theo — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:10:51 +0000

Sometimes the Flex framework source reads like an example of how not to code for extention.

By: julien

julien — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:55:23 +0000

I agree that doing component development can be a real pain, it took me quite a lot of reading and searching(thanks to all the guys that also give info on this). I also found the Flex source code quite weird at first, but after having read their coding conventions, I sort of understood it a bit better, even though I’ll never ever adopt them, lots of them are for me a big waste of time and make those AS files look ugly (spaces everywhere for method calls and a new line for the curly braces = yuk)

By: Brian Deitte

Brian Deitte — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:38:01 +0000

@private is used by ASDoc to indicate that a function shouldn’t be exposed in the documentation. Most likely this was a function that was protected (which is still documented by ASDoc) but someone forgot to remove the @private tag. That doesn’t seem that silly to me.

By: Danny Miller

Danny Miller — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:09:13 +0000

Wow… so I guess Adobe never learned about the protected keyword. That’s why I don’t use the MX framework.
Joylon, which class was this in? I hope the MX framework and not the core…….

By: Jolyon

Jolyon — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:00:39 +0000

If you spend any time digging around in Flex, you find these kinda things all the time. It’s just a shame Adobe can’t employ some better AS coders. The classic that sticks with me goes something like this:

var len : uint = anArray.length;
for( var i : uint = 0; i < anArray.length; i ++ )

It annoyed me so much a logged it as a bug, it’s the only way they’ll learn

Jolyon