Agreed that there can be ways of implementation which can reduce the need for cloning a display object, but this can only be reduced not eliminated.
Also this is not restricted to games. An application for *e.g.* A Whiteboard application would greatly need this for a copy paste functionality. Regards, Saurabh On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > > On 1/22/12 11:47 PM, "Tink" <f...@tink.ws> wrote: > > > TBH this isnt an issue for me when building RIAs (maybe for games), but > if I > > remember correctly, and if nothing has changed, this is a player issue > in that > > you can't clone a DisplayObject. > That prevents using a simple bytearray copy to clone, but we could > implement > a clone API across all UIComponents. I think you your need for one is > greatly reduced if you are using MV or MVC. > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > >
