It is an almost universal experience that the times of our youth and early adulthood are places we cling to for nostalgia. In our 40s, the music we listened to in our 20s is the pinnacle of culture. The movies we watched represent a time when cinema was good, and today everything is crap.
And, based on the sheer flow of calendar time, we have a generation of adults whose nostalgia has latched onto The Flash. I’ve seen a lot of thinking about the Flash era on the web lately. I’d hesitate to project a broader cultural trend from it, but we’re about the right point in the technology cycle when I’d expect people to start feeling real nostalgia for Flash. And I’ll be honest: Flash has 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 its documentation on a Flex-based site from which you could not copy and paste. Luckily it only lasted a few months, but as someone who was heavily involved in the Oracle ecosystem at the time, it was a terrible few months.
Anyway, a long time ago, CW inherited a Flash-based application. Now, Flash, like any UI technology, has a concept of “containers” – if you put a bunch of UI widgets inside a container, their position (by default) is relative to the container. Move the container and all the contents will move. I think we all find this behavior pretty obvious.
The CW contributor did not. Here’s how they went about moving a bunch of connected 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;
catButtonArray[27].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+228;
catButtonArray[27].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+240;
catButtonArray[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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