OOP

So who uses object oriented programming? and if you do, do you use it for everything you do?

really? ok lets say I want to build a simple xml menu. OOP just seems complete overkill, my code always ends up being 3 times as long and a pain to read as its all in different places, am i missing something?

You won’t need OOP if just use it for small thing like creating a gallery, menu, template, ... But OOP really comes in handy if you aim to build a strong application which you can extend later or make use of available property of that app to create another one (the concept of inheritance, composition and polymorphism).

Indeed, everybody already gets their hands dirty in OOP . When people declare something like import flash.filter.* they actually take advantage of OOP . Such filter like Blur, Glow … are subclass of filter class and well organized in one place to provide handy property and method.

Depends on how you want to improve your files later, making everything in OOP does help maintaning/extending available code.

But if you just need to have a plain AS3 version of your files, sure you can get rid off OOP

Indeed, everybody already gets their hands dirty in OOP . When people declare something like import flash.filter.* they actually take advantage of OOP . Such filter like Blur, Glow … are subclass of filter class and well organized in one place to provide handy property and method.

True … but the difference between using a class and writing a class is like the difference between driving a car and building a car