Comments on: Building a better ActionScript

By: silentium

silentium — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:20:49 +0000

I think Adobe is on a perfect way !! The Job Tilte “Flasher” is dead ! If you are a programmer AS3 & Flexbuilder3 or FDT & Ant are your tools. If you are a Flash designer or motion designer Flash CS3 is your IDE.
So If people want the old crappy dirt…… go on !!!

Flash Player is getting Faster and Better ( Astro Beta2 ).
Now I have the possibillity to use powerfull Frameworks like Parsley and use Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern. That’s awsome eh ?

So if someone say’s he wants his mc.onClick = function(){goto and play(3);} it’s like saying i want those steam trains back.

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:52:56 +0000

>>Use silverlight.
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That’s like:
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“My baby has a diaper rash.”
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“Then get rid of your baby and build a robot child.”

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:50:38 +0000

>>Use silverlight.

Oh yeah right.

By: ujuxiun

ujuxiun — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:58:54 +0000

@deadcabbit there is the as3Query port of jQuery to actionscript at:
http://tech.nitoyon.com/blog/2008/01/as3query_alpha.html

I haven’t used it enough to know if it covers all of the article’s complaints covers but it is fun/easier.

By: DarrenKopp

DarrenKopp — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:13:07 +0000

Use silverlight.

By: shadedecho

shadedecho — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:28:00 +0000

Flash CS3 designer users (who aren’t up to speed on OO coding with AS3) can always target flash 9 players with AS2 engine and write that kind of code to their heart’s content. Only if there’s some new flash feature in AS3 they want to use do they *have* to jump the gap, and in those cases, there probably should be (like deadcabbit says) a community driven AS Framework that adds convenience and utility functions to soften the blow that non-programmers get when they come to AS3.

That having been said, there are two features which Colin points out that I totally agree with: 1. unloadMovie replacement, and 2. clone object replacement. Those two are very frustratingly missing from AS3, and their workarounds often require some incredibly ugly code to make happen. These are, in my opinion, shortcomings of the language, while the others are just natural signs of the times that AS is moving forward quickly and it may very well leave some people behind.

But it doesn’t have to if a community rises up and creates frameworks to help. I just don’t think they (Adobe) should dumb down AS3 by adding that stuff in.

By: deadcabbit

deadcabbit — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:50:30 +0000

Most of these “charges” are oop related; flash developers shall start learning oop and prototypic inheritance and they shall live happily ever after – or just wait for flash libraries to address these “problems” (prototype, mootools, jquery anyone?).

By: ccan

ccan — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:15:13 +0000

Finally someone expressed my opinion about AS3 without any extra buzz.
AS3 will never be adopted by general Flash users, unless they provide simple functions or tricks to do tasks like “opening an URL”.

Hell, not every Flash user knows OOp!