First, if you program in ActionScript in anything other than PrimalScript
then you're going through a world of hurt for no reason. PrimalScript is a
real IDE and provides features of a real IDE including context-sensitive
code-hinting on built-in and custom classes. It also supports coding
ColdFusion and in the future Flex. http://www.sapien.com.
As far as AS goes, Flash uses ActionScript which as far as the language goes
is the same as _javascript_ and JScript.NET. I have actually copied and
pasted classes from _javascript_ applications written for SVG deployment into
Flash applications and they worked just fine.
Flash exposes an object model to manipulate the Flash environment and that
object model is specific to Flash, as is the case with every other object
model out there. When you program in Java you use the J2SE and J2EE models.
When you program in .NET you use the .NET Framework. When you program an
Office application you use the office application's object model. When you
program for XML you use DOM.
None of these have any similarities, they are all unique. That is what's
required when moving from one environment to another. It actually has
nothing to do with language as is demonstrated from the .NET model where
multiple languages use the same object model or from the fact that there are
3rd party compilers for C# to SWF in development.
It really shouldn't be a big deal. This is a dynamic industry that requires
learning new things all the time. If you're not opening to learning then
you're not likely to succeed as a programmer.
Good luck,
Sam
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 2:02 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: OT: Interesting article on Macromedia Central...
>
> > 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
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