cheers :)
firdosh
On 10/6/05, Simon Wacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Oh yeah, sounds like heaven to me. ;)
Cheers,
Simon
Mike Chambers wrote:
>The syntax has not changed that much, although things can be much stricter.
>
>For example, you will need to add access modifiers (private, public,
>protected, internal) to your classes, and constructors (other functions
>as well if you dont want them to have the default modifier (internal)).
>
>Also, we have dramatically cleaned up and rationalized the API and
>package structure. So some functions that were in the global space, are
>not in packages (which means you just have to import the packages).
>
>Also, if you compiling in strict mode (which is the default), you cannot
>have implicit casts.
>
>i.e.
>
>trace("Data : " + 5);
>
>will need to be:
>
>trace("Data : " + String(5));
>
>These were the biggest issues I ran into when porting my first app. Hope
>that helps...
>
>mike chambers
>
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>
>Scott Hyndman wrote:
>
>
>>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
>>
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