CodeSOD: Moving in a Flash
It's a nearly universal experience that the era of our youth and early adulthood is where we latch on to for nostalgia. In our 40s, the music we listened to in our 20s is the high point of culture. The movies we watched represent when cinema was good, and everything today sucks.
And, based on the sheer passage of calendar time, we have a generation of adults whose nostalgia has latched onto Flash. I've seen many a thinkpiece lately, waxing rhapsodic about the Flash era of the web. I'd hesitate to project a broad cultural trend from that, but we're roughly about the right time in the technology cycle that I'd expect people to start getting real nostalgic for Flash. And I'll be honest: Flash enabled some interesting projects.
Of course, Flash also gave us Flex, and I'm one of the few people old enough to remember when Oracle tried to put their documentation into a Flex based site from which you could not copy and paste. That only lasted a few months, thankfully, but as someone who was heavily in the Oracle ecosystem at the time, it was a terrible few months.
In any case, long ago, CW inherited a Flash-based application. Now, Flash, like every UI technology, has a concept of "containers"- if you put a bunch of UI widgets inside a container, their positions (default) to being relative to the container. Move the container, and all the contents move too. I think we all find this behavior pretty obvious.
CW's co-worker did not. Here's how they handled moving a bunch of related objects around:
public function updateKeysPosition(e:MouseEvent):void{if(dragging==1){theTextField.x=catButtonArray[0].x-100;theTextField.y=catButtonArray[0].y-200;catButtonArray[1].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+10;catButtonArray[1].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+40;catButtonArray[2].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+10+keyWidth;catButtonArray[2].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+40;catButtonArray[3].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+10+keyWidth*2;catButtonArray[3].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+40;catButtonArray[4].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+10+keyWidth*3;catButtonArray[4].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+40;catButtonArray[5].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+10+keyWidth*4;catButtonArray[5].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+40;catButtonArray[6].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+10+keyWidth*5;catButtonArray[6].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+40;catButtonArray[7].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+10+keyWidth*6;catButtonArray[7].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+40;catButtonArray[8].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+10+keyWidth*7;catButtonArray[8].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+40;catButtonArray[9].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+10+keyWidth*8;catButtonArray[9].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+40;catButtonArray[10].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+10+keyWidth*9;catButtonArray[10].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+40;catButtonArray[11].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+30;catButtonArray[11].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+110;catButtonArray[12].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+30+keyWidth;catButtonArray[12].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+110;catButtonArray[13].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+30+keyWidth*2;catButtonArray[13].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+110;catButtonArray[14].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+30+keyWidth*3;catButtonArray[14].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+110;catButtonArray[15].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+30+keyWidth*4;catButtonArray[15].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+110;catButtonArray[16].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+30+keyWidth*5;catButtonArray[16].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+110;catButtonArray[17].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+30+keyWidth*6;catButtonArray[17].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+110;catButtonArray[18].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+30+keyWidth*7;catButtonArray[18].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+110;catButtonArray[19].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+30+keyWidth*8;catButtonArray[19].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+110;catButtonArray[20].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+60;catButtonArray[20].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+180;catButtonArray[21].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+60+keyWidth;catButtonArray[21].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+180;catButtonArray[22].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+60+keyWidth*2;catButtonArray[22].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+180;catButtonArray[23].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+60+keyWidth*3;catButtonArray[23].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+180;catButtonArray[24].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+60+keyWidth*4;catButtonArray[24].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+180;catButtonArray[25].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+60+keyWidth*5;catButtonArray[25].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+180;catButtonArray[26].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+60+keyWidth*6;catButtonArray[26].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+180;//SPACEcatButtonArray[27].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+228;catButtonArray[27].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+240;//RETURNcatButtonArray[28].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+558;catButtonArray[28].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+207;}}
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