Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and Flashplayer 8

2010-10-19 Thread Beatrix Krümmer-Frau
Got all infromation from Adobe directly, sorry for misunderstanding your first answer, I thought you know something I didn't. When published I will leave a link to the mailing list. Am 19.10.2010 11:04, schrieb Henrik Andersson: Beatrix Krümmer-Frau skriver: Am 18.10.2010 14:08, schrieb H

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and Flashplayer 8

2010-10-19 Thread Henrik Andersson
Beatrix Krümmer-Frau skriver: Am 18.10.2010 14:08, schrieb Henrik Andersson: The old flash player will ignore the swf tags related to as 3. This means: as long as I write AS3 syntax without as 3 specific classes it can work? No, not only would that be completely useless practically, but it's

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and Flashplayer 8

2010-10-19 Thread Beatrix Krümmer-Frau
Am 18.10.2010 14:08, schrieb Henrik Andersson: The old flash player will ignore the swf tags related to as 3. This means: as long as I write AS3 syntax without as 3 specific classes it can work? New players will ignore as 2 related tags when the swf declares that it is as 2. I dont think th

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and Flashplayer 8

2010-10-19 Thread strk
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 01:25:09PM -0400, Kevin Newman wrote: > The OP referenced "old" players. I didn't think "freedom" players were > the topic. > > There is the GPL 3 Lightspark player: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightspark Agreed, but that one doesn't build on many platforms. If "broad

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and Flashplayer 8

2010-10-18 Thread Kevin Newman
The OP referenced "old" players. I didn't think "freedom" players were the topic. There is the GPL 3 Lightspark player: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightspark Kevin N. On 10/18/10 12:23 PM, strk wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:05:28PM -0400, Kevin Newman wrote: On alternative platforms

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and Flashplayer 8

2010-10-18 Thread Beatrix Krümmer-Frau
free = opensource ?!? Am 18.10.2010 18:40, schrieb Henrik Andersson: strk skriver: I disagree. There is NO _free_ player supporting AVM2 movies. Free player means virtual support for _any_ platform. You must be using some definition of "free" that doesn't involve beer.

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and Flashplayer 8

2010-10-18 Thread Henrik Andersson
strk skriver: I disagree. There is NO _free_ player supporting AVM2 movies. Free player means virtual support for _any_ platform. You must be using some definition of "free" that doesn't involve beer. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfi

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and Flashplayer 8

2010-10-18 Thread strk
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:05:28PM -0400, Kevin Newman wrote: > On alternative platforms - AS3 (AVM2) is available on more platforms > than it used to be, even being supported in some versions of Flash Lite, I disagree. There is NO _free_ player supporting AVM2 movies. Free player means virtual

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and Flashplayer 8

2010-10-18 Thread Kevin Newman
Flash Player 8 supports only AVM1 bytecode (compiled from Actionscript 1.0 and 2.0 - and haXe). Flash Player 9+ supports AVM1 and AVM2. Actionscript 3.0 gets compile into AVM2 bytecode (and haXe). There is no way to use Actionscript 3.0 with Flash Player 8 and lower. Even if you use haXe, th

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and Flashplayer 8

2010-10-18 Thread Henrik Andersson
Beatrix Krümmer-Frau skriver: Hi all, I am searching informations about using Actionscript 3 for projects, which have to run in old, old Flash Versions. I need arguments for customers who still work with Actionscript 2. Any suggestions are welcome, will do a paper on this issue. Thanks in adva

[Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and Flashplayer 8

2010-10-18 Thread Beatrix Krümmer-Frau
Hi all, I am searching informations about using Actionscript 3 for projects, which have to run in old, old Flash Versions. I need arguments for customers who still work with Actionscript 2. Any suggestions are welcome, will do a paper on this issue. Thanks in advance -- *Beatrix Kruemmer-