By: BD

BD — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:02:42 +0000

I think you should use the 4th word “passionate” in your description too!!
It’s important!
And i get what you mean with the as2 -> as3 story.
In as2 i could do loads off stuff, and not event that slow (i’m a designer, not a developer!) But in as3… pfff… just a simple getURL is a hassle!

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:45:57 +0000

Whoa, what a post. But.. I get your point. Writing 500 lines of code for a simple application is nothing these days. I think it is always challenging, I don’t mind writing lots of code. I hate weak-typed languages. Yes, most of times they are shorter, but for me that feels more crap. Yes, loading stuff in AS3 costs a lot of lines, it can be an be written much shorter.
To have the full actionscript experience, you really need (!) a good code editor with auto-import functionality, code completion, snippets, contextual function generation etc. This will make your life much easier. Just take the time to learn shortcuts, i am sure your example can be coded in 2 minutes with a good editor. Just ‘hack’ to your problem (problem is having lots of code) .. learn to re-use and create reusable classes. In case of your example, I’ve created a simple image class. Just use
var image:Image =new Image(“myPicture.jpg”); addChild(image);
and you are done. It is in a lot cases not needed to listen to IOErrorEvent, in most cases you just know the images are there. Otherwise; just make sure the images are there. You don’t always have to code perfectly. In case you didn’t know; you can use dynamic classes in AS3. Just use the MovieClip again (instead of a Sprite), and you can add variables without even declaring them in custom classes. You can turn off strict typing om AS3 too.
BTW thanks for the BB award

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