Now AS is more complicated, good for programmers, bad for designer

I have developed out in silverlight and with version 1.0, it is not ready to compete at the level with flash. It doesn’t have anything equivalent to the flash movie clip for example. Reusing a single storyboard on multiple buttons etc requires custom javascript to modify the storybaord’s targets to match whatever you rolled over. It is all doable, but it version 1.0 isn’t quite there yet. I look forward to when it is there though because silverlight has promise. I for one am really curious to see how the battle between Flex and Silverlight is going to shape up.

btw .. the problem was that button stops expanding and dont collapsing :\

Is onEnterFrame still the best way to have something executing constantly ?

i.e : I have a sprite I want it kinda floating around randomly on the screen, I have my OnEnterFrame event listener running my MoveStuff(), it’s works.. but is this the best way to acheive this ?

AS3 is a bad idea.
The AS2 is better than AS3 for designers, but who using flash? – Designers. Adobe should be changing AS for designer.

@maroon

AS3 is not bad, and Flash is not used exclusively by designers (I’m a designer myself BTW). The Flash platform is now a viable and efficient solution for developing and deploying desktop and internet apps.

Actionscript is now an object orientated language, and anyone worth their salt will tell you that OOP development (despite a steeper learning code) is the *only* way to develop feature rich media.

It really annoys me when people knock AS3 saying it sucks – just because you don’t understand it and have to change some of your (bad) design/development habits to industry recognized standards is no reason to dismiss such a much needed update to the language.

Luckily for you ludites, Adobe is creating another Flash IDE called ‘Flash Catalyst’, aimed at allowing designers to quickly create functionality without having to touch code (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcatalyst/). It looks like a good app, and fits nicely into the design > develop > deploy process – hopefully it’ll stop whining little peons like you from banging your pretty little heads against brick walls.

AS3 Sucks

Action Script 3 is powerful, but not close in power and measure to other OOP languages like ASP.Net C#. So I guess where my complaint is, if Adobe is going to drop a bomb on us, then do it… and get it over with… make Action Script just-as-if-not more powerful than C#. But the steady incremental changes with each incarnation being holistically different than the next is driving me nuts. Again I’m complaining because it took me a year to relearn AS3, I’m happy now going all Kung Fu on Problems but dude, if AS5 is holistically different than AS3 —I’M DONE WITH ADOBE and moving on to Silverlight WPF and Blend. Which by the time AS5 comes rolling about will have as much ubiquity as SWF.

Large clients want Flex based RIAs these days… “pretty” photo showcases and “sticky” banners are no longer in demand. You can’t impress folks or make a dime anymore with some whiz-bang AS2… I’ve been working with flash for 9 years so AS3 was a MASSIVE hit to my way of thinking, pride, my whole mantra really and wow has it opened doors that I NEVER thought would be available to me. I was forced to adapt, because eating is important to me, and it turned out to be a blessing to any existing AS2 developer who commits to AS3. Everyone else is falls in the much needed washout category in my mind. The industry needed a purge though .

-m

I have managed to create the swf file which will load other swf files after 5 secs.
What i need now is: after 5secs the first swf file to be removed and on the next frame to upload a new swf file bu just changing the
var my_next_swf:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“swf1.swf”);

to

var my_next_swf:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“swf2.swf”);
and
var swf_secs:Timer = new Timer(5000, 1);
to
var swf_secs:Timer = new Timer(10000, 1);

here is the full code.

var my_next_swf:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“swf1.swf”);
var next_swf_loader:Loader = new Loader();
next_swf_loader.load(my_next_swf);
addChild(next_swf_loader);

var swf_secs:Timer = new Timer(5000, 1);

swf_secs.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, doit_next_swf);

function doit_next_swf(event:TimerEvent):void
{

nextFrame();

//removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, ?);
}

swf_secs.start();

or better

_root.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(_root._ymouse200){
myVar=true;
}
if(_root._xmouse100 and myVar==true){
imgBar.nextFrame();
imgBar.nextFrame();
} else{
imgBar.play();
}
if(_root._xmouse>50 &&_root._xmouse<350 && myVar==true){
imgBar.stop();
}
}

I’m trying to make a flash move on to a php site when it reatchen it’s end. So I tryed this but it just spams my browser with new tabs.

addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, e);

function e(event:Event):void
{
var link:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“http://www.google.com”);
}

stop();

Here’s my button code by the way (at the moment) It’s got a lot of commented out stuff as I turn off and on different pieces of code. Oh- and please excuse my goofy naming conventions!! When it’s really late, and I’m tired, and trying to remember which part of a function/var is in my words and not as3 I try to keep a sense of humor about it!

————————————-
btn1_mc.buttonMode=true;
btn2_mc.buttonMode=true;

btn1_mc.useHandCursor=true;
btn2_mc.useHandCursor=true;

var titsLoader:Loader;
//var boobsLoader:Loader;

var urlReq:URLRequest;

var ballsUrl:String=”balls.swf”;
var boobsUrl:String=”boobs.swf”;

addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,myFunction);
function myFunction(event:Event) {
trace(“Do Something”);
}

function Badass(ba:MouseEvent):void {
if (ba.target==btn1_mc) {
//titsLoader = new Loader();
urlReq=new URLRequest(ballsUrl);
titsLoader.load(urlReq);
mt_mc.addChild(titsLoader);
}
if (ba.target==btn2_mc) {
titsLoader = new Loader();
urlReq=new URLRequest(boobsUrl);
titsLoader.load(urlReq);
mt_mc.addChild(titsLoader);
}
}

//function unloadMovies(e:Event):void {
// removeChild(titsLoader);
// removeChild(titsLoader);
//}

btn1_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,Badass);
btn2_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,Badass);
————————————

This is just a side test file to see how the hell I can put in/ pull out my page swfs..
I havent gotten it to work totally yet.

SIMON IS A MORON. Flash has full capabilities of any other scripting language AS3 is way more logical and easy to use. they are making the program better you moron. it takes no time to learn AS3 if you know AS2. Use your brain and learn something technology is about advancement not sitting still in the same place forever.