I have never really got around to learning AS2 and tend to program
everything in AS1 - tutt tutt!!
Anyway I was thinking it is about time I got with the times and was going to
start working through the book I bought a while ago Essential Actionscript
2 by Colin Moock. I bought this a while ago
Well actually there's some difference in learning AS2 with, say, flash mx
2004 and learning it with flash 8. Not that the language is any different,
but the API of flash 8 can be a bit more overwhelming (it's API is more OOP
orientated than that of 2004), so perhaps start going through the stuff
Thanks for all the replies.
I will get cracking on learning AS2 then before AS4 arrives:)
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I have never really got around to learning AS2 and tend to program
everything in AS1 - tutt tutt!!
Anyway I was thinking it is about time I got
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This may be a little late to this conversation but I'd have to disagree.
I would learn AS3 and skip AS2. You can only learn and experiment with
AS3 in Flex Builder 2 (as far as i know) since
yet.
Thanks for your advice though.
Cheers
Paul
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This may be a little late
.
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Not really, if you use AS2 in all it's strictness and to it's full extent,
classes
- you do not have a timeline in AS3+flex2
Just to avoid confusion AS3 still fully supports the timeline, and if you
load clips with frames that were compiled in Authoring you can still use
goto, stop and all other timeline methods, properties and events.
It's Flex which avoids the timeline,
AS1 and AS2 and AS3 all compile to Flash Player byte-code. The VM could
not care less how you created the byte-code. You could define your own
language and write your own compiler to generate an swf.
Sort of true, but misleading. AS1(2) bytecode runs in the old VM, and
AS3 bytecode runs in
I've spent a fair bit of time this week helping people who are trying to get
their Flex 1.5 apps working in Flex 2. Some of those apps worked with only a
tiny tweak here and there and others will pretty much require a total
rewrite. What I'm finding is that there is enough difference between what
Strictly speaking the VMs care an awful lot about what they get, but you can
use any tool you like to create a swf that conforms to what the VM requires.
Creating an ActionScript compiler that generated java bytecode is certainly
possible, but would have the same problems. You'd have to make sure
- you do not have a timeline in AS3+flex2
Just to avoid confusion AS3 still fully supports the timeline, and if you
load clips with frames that were compiled in Authoring you can still use
goto, stop and all other timeline methods, properties and events.
It's Flex which avoids the
If you have 2 VMs supporting 2 different byte-codes (AS2 and AS3) then
you really have 2 products and only the branding (Macromedia Flash) makes
them similar.
The renderer both VM use is still the same (there are no two renderers),
also each VM has separate API but both share a lot of code
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