> @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 [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
