How is the code compiled and run?

Question

Hi,
im wondering how this code is interpretet/run by flash as3.
Lets say i have a for loop:
for ( var i:Number = 0; i < 12; i++)
runStep1();
runStep2();
runStep3();
Does the as-code run top to bottom and every method runStep1,
runStep2, runStep3 is run in a sequence or does the for-loop just
rush through the methods and doesnt bother if the methods are
totally executed?
//Criss

Answer 1

Hi --
I agree with you on the way Actionscript behaves -- it
definitly doesn't
execute in a way you would expect. One way to work around
this issue (if
possible) is to call one function from the end of another,
for example:
for ( var i:Number = 0; i < 12; i++)
runStep1();
function runStep1() {
runStep2();
function runStep2() {
runStep3();
This appraoch won't always work if you don't always want step
2 to run after
step 1, etc. but it is one approach to this issue.
Rich
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>
Yes im an oldie but new hehe. I was told flash would
run
> straight thorough each for loop without bothering if
each of the functions
> (runStep1, runStep2...) were executed ready. Lets say
runStep1() is
> calculating somthing that takes 2 second and runStep2
and runStep3 are
> dependent of what runStep1 has calculated you would end
up with som
> strange
> hard to debug error.
> I know there are other ways of adressing this problem
but I never heard
> of
> this kind of execution order in other programming
languages.
>