’some basic async stuff’
..or so he calls it. My good friend Michael Avila, Roger Braunstein and Jeff Yamada made this way awesome system for asynchronous action-handling in Actionscript3.0.
I suggest you go check it out:
some basic async stuff - kirupaForum
We knew ahead of time that we’d be dealing with a lot of the obvious stuff like loading, animating, preparing displays, but we needed to come up with a clean way to deal with the asynchronous nature of these things.
We decided to implement a system which would allow us to observe the status of some asynchronous action through the use of asynchronous tokens. These asynchronous tokens dispatch events which specify whether or not the asynchronous action it represents completed successfully or with failure.
kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=270148
August 3rd, 2007 | Quote
Dude, I inspired the concept of asynchronous events. You see, when people ask me for things, I don’t just go do them, there’s a huge lag if it ever gets done in the first place. Roger saw this and was like, “Jeff! You’re brilliant!”.
August 3rd, 2007 | Quote
I’d hardly say that I made it :-\ This was a combination of some ideas I had along with an awesome implementation by my man Roger Braunstein (www.partlyhuman.com)!