Thu Sep 23, 2010
I’ve started using the Robotlegs AS3 library to better organize the source code of my Flash map. Sometimes I have a hard time understanding diagrams and documentation. It happened when reading the PureMVC documentation, and it happened again while learning Robotlegs. I believe the documentation sometimes assumes many concepts are familiar. I find many words used are too abstract and non specific. Instead of having to read 20 or 30 pages several times, I’d like a short list with rules, a numbered list of steps required to make it work. I miss a one page long explanation, which I think is perfectly possible. I remember taking diagrams from a popular AS3 book, moving some boxes around and the result would be so much simpler, more symmetric. It was like playing this untangle game. When I first had a look at the Robotlegs diagram I didn’t really get it. I found the lines with 90º turns hard to follow, and I had to search for those numbers one by one. So I remade this diagram using curved lines. I tried to make it possible to understand the code flow effortlessly, following just one line from start to end. Hopefully others also find it simpler.
