So with AS you have a single runtime to deal with which is similar to java/c++ or whatever else with an object oriented language structure.
JS is basically just different with any combination of different libraries that may be minified or obfuscated etc and the runtime is the particular browser it's running in. Could be any browser and combination of libraries. The tooling for inspection depends on the browser itself so it's different every time. Also, because of JavaScript's prototypal nature and language structure it is not as clearly written and is often more functional which can be confusing. The other thing is that JavaScript can exist in numerous places within a single page and injected and so forth. It's somewhat similar to the earlier versions of flash where you had scripts all spread out over a timeline with lots of animations and etc. Flex is much different than both of these in that it's a pretty robust presentation layer on a single runtime/language with a project composition similar to classical languages. David -----Original Message----- From: OmPrakash Muppirala <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 2:10 PM Subject: Re: Ahhh Adobe... On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Sean Thayne <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree, I'm pretty sure JS has Backtraces, and Breakpoints, so I think > it's pretty much the same. > > -Sean Thayne > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Jeffry Houser <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > On 3/27/2014 1:45 PM, Alain Ekambi wrote: > > > >> @Cadu > >> > >> > >> > >> I m mainting a 5 years old web application. > >> I wish HTML/CSS/JS was easy to do. > >> > >> Things like "I want to find where this method is getting called" becomes > >> almost impossible to do. > >> > > > > I don't understand why finding where a method gets called would be > harder > > in JavaScript than it would in ActionScript. Am I missing something? > > > > Wouldn't you just search the code base for the method name? Am I > missing > > an easier way? > It probably depends on the IDE. With AS3, in Flash Builder, I can right click any variable or function and select "References" and chose Workspace/Project/File. With functions, I can right-click and select "Call Hierarchy" to see the function call hierarchy. I havent been able to do this with Javascript projects. Thanks, Om > > > > > > > > -- > > Jeffry Houser > > Technical Entrepreneur > > http://www.jeffryhouser.com > > 203-379-0773 > > > > >
