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What is more efficient

Hi,

Can somebody tell me what is more efficient performance wise - using _global variables or referencing a variable on the root with _parent._parent all the time? Taking note that I cannot use _root as it is an embeded SWF file.

Thanks

dgofman

Is this for ActionScript 2?
As I know in AS3 we cannot use _root or _global variables
Anyway I will recommend to use _global, because if you declare your values as _global you
will able to access to values from loaded external SWF
Usually when we are loading SWF into SWF we are using _lookroot = true;
In this case you may not able to access to _root values

andrewkhan

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Yes, unfortunately I am tied to ActionScript 2 as the system I am using relies on that. (See www.yudu.com).

Just looked up _lockroot. If that does what I think it does it is going to be very useful and save me a lot of headaches...

Will get back if it works.

Thanks

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andrewkhan

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No, no that's not my design! ( I wish ;) ) Just the system i'm using. The magazines use flash in which you can place Flash to 'enhance' the design.

andrewkhan

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I managed to solve the problem caused by optimization through the another means (turns out it wasn't my bad coding, few!)

But this _lockroot is going to be very useful and would of solved my problem if that was the cause.

So thanks, dgofman!