Hey all, best practices question for you all. I am working on a component framework for myself right now, and was wondering if a child component should contain a reference to its parent. Obviously flash itself does this as part of the movieclip parent/child structure, so I figure it’s okay to do this, but does this present any memory problems or anything, having references to the parent in the child? Would it be better to do some sort of lookup tree, just passing each child an array of GUIDs or similar which I could use to trace a component back to all its parents?
Hope that makes sense, thanks all!
–EP