Mike, that's how I've described Flash to a few programmers I know. I've just started learning about OO stuff lately and I'm amazed at how Flash makes a great design implmentation of the concepts. The Library as a collection of classes, the Instances are (obviously) instantiated objects. ActionScript on a movie object is a set of methods.
Having done some Flash has been very helpful in my learning of OO concepts, and learning some OO has helped with my learning ActionScript. Have you looked at the books "Object Oriented Programming with ActionScript" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735711836/102-4632851-1969702?v=glance or "Object Oriented Macromedia Flash MX"? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590590147/102-4632851-1969702?v=glance -Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Dinowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 1:59 PM Subject: Flash for Programmers > I just had a wonderful meeting with a sponsor for the next NYCFUG meeting and we > did something that no one else that I know of has done. We took flash designer > concepts and terms and put them into programmer speak. We went from simple > things like what a movie clip is (basically a class) to how parameters are > passed/inherited to the fact that code in Flash repeats till explicitly told to > stop. Lots of good stuff that can be combined with Flash Pro to make Flash > really usable for us programmers. Flash pro is great and all but it still uses > designer speak for everything and this can be a hindrance to people who want to > know that the stage is just the display area without having to refer to it as a > stage. > Look for an article or two on this in the next month. > > Michael Dinowitz > Finding technical solutions to the problems you didn't know you had yet > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
