Question

I have an AS3 App class e.g (pseudo code)

public class MyApp extends Application
{
        protected function onRender():void
        {
            trace("frameRate = "+frameRate);
        }
}

and this is then extended by the app MXML:

<MyApp width="100%" height="100%" frameRate="30" enterFrame="onRender()">
...
</MyApp>

The app appears to be running at the right speed, but in MyApp.onRender(), frameRate is seen as NaN (in the debugger too if I step through).
Why is this? How should I be obtaining the application’s FPS property?

Answer 1

The Language Reference has this note for frameRate in the Application class:

Note: This property cannot be set by ActionScript code; it must be set in MXML code.

If you use stage.frameRate in your trace it should give you the framerate you assigned to the Application. You might need to throw a try-catch statement around the trace, since the enterFrame event can be dispatched before stage is instantiated.