> knowledge and making parallels between new infomation and old
> information
This is true, but not always relevant. For example, knowing CF doesn't help
you too much with GUI development, which is what Flash is largely about.
> Example. _javascript_, Java, C++ -- how different are they? Does
> CF have the same concepts and names for things as those languages?
> How about VB? C#? yes they do ... ok then theres ActionScript - I
> am not going to learn it becuase there are few commonalties, and
> it's too much of a pain. I would like to use Flash, it seems like
> it has potential but there is no need for me to learn that "Stage"
> is the same as "Screen" (again this is several people talking not
> just me).
While a lot of programmers have trouble with the Flash IDE in general,
ActionScript and _javascript_ are essentially the same language - they're both
ECMAScript-compliant. ActionScript and _javascript_ are a lot closer than
_javascript_ and Java.
> Yeah I tried that and it would resize it every now and again
> with out me asking, and even though you can resize it it seems
> like an after thought to allow code writting - which is where
> the power is.
>
> Anyway when people go out of their way to make their own editors
> you know something is wrong.
I find this surprising coming from the guy who wrote the cfeclipse plugin!
You can use any editor you like to write ActionScript. Our own Samuel Neff
strongly recommends PrimalScript, if I recall correctly.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
phone: 202-797-5496
fax: 202-797-5444
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