Hey all, I've been looking a bit at CreateJS and Haxe/OpenFL, and since the question was asked a while ago, and the list is rather slow, I thought I'd share some further thoughts...
I've decided to go with CreateJS for now. I was very excited about Haxe, especially from the point of view of one source for multiple platforms, but for heavily interactive Flash-style projects it just doesn't seem to be quite there yet. I'd love to be proven wrong(!), but here are the shortcomings that I've found in my brief look: 1. Sprite/Bitmap detection -- it looks like mouse detection is on the bounding box, so e.g. rollovers on arbitrarily shaped bitmaps is impossible. (Well, you may be able to use hitTestPoint and some fancy gyrations, but... eeech.) 2. Filter support -- seems weak and limited; e.g. GlowFilter isn't available for the HTML5 target. 3. Ease of developing -- relatively minor, and single-source across targets would easily outweigh this. But with Haxe, firstly you have an extra step (the build). Then, Haxe seems somewhat monolithic: it's good for handling the core interactive <canvas> area, but the HTML has to live in a separate file: Haxe rebuilds the HTML file each time and there doesn't seem to be a good way to preserve custom HTML in the same file between builds. Again, not a show-stopper, but I find workflow quicker without the build, and editing the HTML/JS directly. CreateJS seems to work well across all browsers I've tested on so far (with, of course, the exception of IE8)... as did Haxe. There may be retorts for all these criticisms, since I've only looked "so far"... please feel free to contradict me! Thanks, --Dave On Jun 24, 2014, at 9:00 AM, flashcoders-requ...@chattyfig.figleaf.com wrote: > On 23/06/2014 17:29, David Cohn wrote: >> Cedric, >> I've been here since the get-go... in digest mode, so most questions are >> answered by the time I get them ;-) >> Thanks-- time to delve into Haxe-- I'm excited! >> --Dave >> > > I don't know how good it is but FDT have been involved with Haxe for a long > time... > http://fdt.powerflasher.com/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&ns0=1&redirs=0&search=haxe&limit=500&offset=0 > > John > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
