You misunderstand me. I'm not asking about new features, because I'm sure there are bazillions. I just want to know how easily I'll be able to get my code running using AS3...so what core language elements have *changed*?
But I already got my answer. Event model and DOM. Scott -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Darron J. Schall Sent: Thu 10/6/2005 11:35 AM To: Open Source Flash Mailing List Cc: Subject: Re: [osflash] [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0 Scott Hyndman wrote: >How different do you think the language will be? Won't be much more than an >extension of AS2, will it? Like I guess they could introduce true private >variables or something, so that I'd have to change the access modifiers on a >bunch of my methods, but it isn't too tough to adapt. > The language probably won't be too much different, as it's still following ECMAScript. However, the entire Event model / "DOM" is different. http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/productinfo/faq/flex2_faq.html "ActionScript 3 also supports the core object W3C standard DOM Level 3 event model." "ActionScript 3 introduces several new language features that increase developer productivity and simplify maintenance of applications, including the ability to use strong typing, native E4X support, and a new Display List API that makes it easier for developers to structure and control user interfaces." Plus, from http://www.waldosmeets.com/index.cfm?entryID=593 "A brand new, highly-optimized ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2) embedded in Flash Player 8.5; including E4X, regular expressions, integrated event handling, runtime error reporting and binary sockets;" Notice there's "regular expressions" in there. :-) -d _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
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