Mike,
So with regard to planning...
Will there be another massive client upgrade push in the spring for 8.5?
I am just wonderering what this will be like for users that just
upgraded to 8 to then upgrade to 8.5. Thankfully the 8 upgrade does
seem fairly simple. But the elephant in the room is how many people
will adopt, in what time frame, and will MM be less agressive about
8.5 upgrades.
One thought I had is that MM might position 8.5 initially more as
something for the corporate environment where the upgrade issues might
be less. On the other hand, I am doing consumer stuff where I want to
leverage the latest and the greatest, but I dont want to burden my
users/customers unnecessarily so I am hoping for massive, easy, and
quick adoption.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Hank
On 10/6/05, Mike Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> 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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