@Darren: Once again thanks for the info. Also the makefile on your blog looks useful. Which version of ubuntu are you using? I downloaded the flex3 sdk yesterday, but since I'm on 64bit Hardy, the flashplayer_installer failed. I'm working with the folks on the ubuntu forum to get that fixed, but I'm wondering whether installing the rest of the SDK will also be fraught with problems for 64bit linux users... which brings me to my next question.
Are there big differences between HaXe and the compiler from Flex3 SDk? Both are selfcontainted actionscript 3 compilers? Or do you need extra programs (like swfmill for AS2) for any of them? ----- Original Message ---- From: Darren Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Open Source Flash Mailing List <osflash@osflash.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2008 3:33:33 AM Subject: Re: [osflash] Am I overlooking any crucial tools? > @Darren. Thanks for the input. Do you think it will be much effort to > port my exisiting AS2 code to AS3? I've just finished porting one largish application and it took a lot longer than expected. I was expecting I'd just have to tweak a bit of syntax, but I ended up needing to rewrite most stuff. AS2 was an ugly language, and I had lots of complex code that just disappeared when ported to AS3; but keeping that ugly complex code wasn't possible, hence the need to rewrite. The other specific problem I had was I could no longer assign undefined to a variable, or null to a Number. I was using undefined and null to mean different things in some places. The Number things was particularly annoying as everywhere I assigned undefined or null I now needed to assign NaN. But then n==NaN is not possible and has to be rewritten isNan(n). Loading takes more lines of code. But I wrapped that all in a class (which I'll release as open source when I have time). > I'm glad to hear you also use Scite; so are we not missing out on > great functionality by not using elipse? I have found Eclipse very slow to start and very cluttered. With SciTE I can open the file, go to the problem line, fix the problem and recompile, all in the time it takes Eclipse to display its splash logo. Perhaps I never spent enough time climbing the Eclipse learning curve... Darren -- Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer http://dcook.org/mlsn/ (English-Japanese-German-Chinese-Arabic open source dictionary/semantic network) http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) http://darrendev.blogspot.com/ (blog on php, flash, i18n, linux, ...) _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list osflash@osflash.org http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
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