Hi all, This is my first post in the list. I've been experimenting in some AS3 development with Flash 9 Public Alpha in our company, coding a racing game prototype. So far the experience has been great, at least from a coding perspective, as I'm using Flex 2 to write the code and Flash 9 to compile and run it. It's much cleaner to code in AS3, I found it very satisfying and much less ugly then AS2, not to mention the increased performance.
Not everything went smoothly though. It's rather common to see Flash 9 crash while running the game, taking down the whole IDE with it. At first I thought it was a problem in the IDE itself, but then I started testing the game directly in Flash Player and Internet Explorer. Again, I get random crashes. It's funny, because being such a high level tool, I'm not supposed to be able to generate such violent crashes just by running Actionscript code, so it must certainly be a bug somewhere in the VM, or in the code generated by the Flash 9 Alpha compiler. I tested it in several different computers, all with the same results. It's not happening 100% of the times I test the game, but I can say it happens often enough to be considered alarming. The Fla file has a little over 10 megs, with the SWF being around 3 megs. I'm not using any sound so far, it's basically a lot of sprites and animations. The crashes can happen in just about any part of the game, but usually when the user clicks a button to change the current screen, though the screen itself is pretty much random. I also have noticed the crashes to have increased as I added more assets to the main Fla file, though this might not be true. Is anyone else developing with Flash 9 Alpha? Maybe you're also having such crash problems, but were able to find workarounds or know of any common pitfalls that can cause these problems? I'd appreciate any help, as I'd really like to know if it's too risky to go for developing a full product in this version of flash, or if it's better to just stay in the experimental phase and wait a little more. But we need the Flash IDE to develop our games, it's just not possible to do it with Flex alone. If Flash 9 alpha is really that unstable, we'll just have to keep developing in AS2 for a little longer. Thanks. -- Frederico Ferro Schuh ICQ 20486081 MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
