Get Flash8.5 and the Flex2 Framework from the Macromedia Labs. I am currently downloading the whole package and already read something about compiling. Most of the AS2 Classes won’t work with the new compiler. Maybe some IRC Client release today? I’ll hurry!
Do not miss the AS3 Language Reference and also the Socket documentation. And what a shame for Macromedia. This gets on my nerves.
Why is it not possible to do something like socket.onSockread = function( input: String ) { trace( input ); } where input is the next CRLF terminated string.
Now we have to write functions which combine those bytes together to a string and fire an event when there is a CRLF. Well done :-(
Update:
After some time of tests and experiments I had a lot of problems. Flex2 (and all that stuff) seems too overload to me. I never really used Eclipse because I don’t need all that tools which this IDE offers. Now it is like jumping into the cold water for me and I think I am not alone.
Ok, Flex was just installed and I created a new Actionscript3 project. The output was kinda like .NET
[as]package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
public class IRC extends MovieClip {
public function IRC() {
}
}
}[/as]
I tried to create an instance of my Main class in that IRC() function. First I added the classpath and then a simple var main: Main = new Main( this, width, height ); and I was not able to get anything out of it. Even trace() (which is now defined in flash.util) gave no output for me. Wow, no classes worked, I got not even a trace(‘hi’); out of it. Using moveTo(), lineTo() etc. did not work for me. Of course it is me who is doing something wrong. Anyway – I stopped trying to compile my classes or even to get new code working.
Now I started with a Flex project and I am not very excited about that part. It’s all like .NET. You have your states and elements you can drag on stage etc. The IDE generates some code and it is all XML. I am not an XML fan but did you ever developed an application using XML?
I stopped after having this code and a nice first form of lables and input boxes. I stopped because I was bored reading about how to include own ActionScript now into that evil XML.
It will take a long time to get into all the new stuff. But for me an updated MTASC would be enough. Maybe I can make MTASC compile with the new classes :o)
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