aloha,
there are some other issues associated to using static members that
you should take into account.
Personally, I only use static members for constants.
take a look at this short description
http://www.simonwacker.com/blog/archives/cat_flash.php#method_scope_per_class
best,
aldo
On 10/24/05, Matt Chotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> An object that is declared static goes on the class object instead of on the
> instance object. In general there is only one copy of the class object in
> memory so a variable declared there will save you some space. So if you are
> talking about things like constants a static variable is a good thing to
> use. A function on the other hand generally does not take so much memory
> that you get a lot of benefit out of it being static. So if the function is
> truly a utility, fine, make it static, but don't try to go optimizing code
> by changing functions on a class into statics, you won't see much benefit.
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> Matt
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> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Pradeep Chaudhary
> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 1:35 AM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [flexcoders] Doubts about static keyword
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> Can anybody please explain me how the static keyword works in Flex. As
> per my understanding staic variable or a method is created in memory
> just once and is shared after that.
> If i create a static method in a Actionscript class, is it actually
> created just once in memory?.
> Is it similar to javascript functions which are created on loading of the
> page?
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> Does having static methods really save memory usage.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Pradeep
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