Writing action script from books or memory?

Question

hey guys. I mess around with Flash and get into the most
basic action scripting. My question is, for the most part, do
designers all copy existing code and modify it to fit thier design
needs, or do they just write it themselves all the time? I really
cant imagine the latter. Im hoping that designers always have tons
of books around.

Answer 1

"Nicknamenick" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> hey guys. I mess around with Flash and get into the most
basic action
> scripting. My question is, for the most part, do
designers all copy existing
> code and modify it to fit thier design needs, or do they
just write it
> themselves all the time? I really cant imagine the
latter. Im hoping that
> designers always have tons of books around.
Books don't do it for me. It takes too long to get the right
kind of example from books. What I do is to make folders of Flash
source code that is categorized. One of the advantages of
helping people on these forums is seeing so many code examples.
Whenever
I run across a good example of something or write a piece of
code for someone I save it as a reference in one of the folders.
Now
when I need any code I either write it from memory if it's
short enough or go to one of my source code folders for examples. I
have
lots of books but that aren't nearly as valuable to me as my
sorted source code.
Online website sources such as flashkit.com and others can be
very counter-productive for me. The examples are often old code
from
Flash 4 and 5 and usually written by an amateur with bad
coding style. The online book recourses like safari.com are great
though.
You can search for code snippets through all the Flash books.
tralfaz