eokyere posted a pretty cool article/tips on how to make some of your AS3 code elegant in the case of applying functions to entire lists.
/*
For example, we have a list of donuts, and we want
to see which ones have chocolate, and then later
decide to take chunks of bites out of them:
*/

for (var i:Number = 0, n:Number = donuts.length; i < n; ++i)
if ((donuts[i] as Donut).hasChocolate())
v.push(donut[i]);
OR you can use Array’s filter function…

function choco(donunt:Donut):Boolean { return donut.hasChocolate(); }
var chocs:Array = donuts.filter(choco);

Very helpful read. It’s very easy to take for granted arrays and loops.

Link to eokyere’s blog entry on “Higher Order Actionscript” here.

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Someone once asked me if they had a datagrid column that displayed millions, billions, and trillions of dollars, how could they render it in a non-numerical way so it would show as:

1,000,000 = 1 Million
1,000,000,000 = 1 Billion
1,000,000,000,000 = 1 Trillion

The other requirement is that it must still be in a numerical format to apply mathematical operations. Flex framework’s Datagrid component has a nice feature called “labelFunction” that lets you define your own custom label render so that you may apply your own rules. The following is one sample approach to the problem.




[Bindable]
public var myDataProvider:Array = [ 125000000.99,
1700000000.01,
984561321483.56,
0.99,
5.75,
31400000000.01];

It looks like this: