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  2683 readersJuten Tach, i am currently porting some code from Java to ActionScript. And of course, doing that makes some differences between these languages directly visible. One thing for example is: getter/setter methods. I love the ActionScript getter/setter approach. I think, it is pretty well-thought-out. The good thing about it is, that they look like a

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  2665 readersJuten Tach, after all this thinking about not saving code as text anymore but in an object structure, i thought it might be worthwhile to understand a bit more about how ActionScript is built and what the elements are. What else to do but to dive into the specifications of ActionScript and the AVM2. Specifically i was

• Events – still no first-class citizens of ActionScript

  3370 readersJuten Tach, today i was juggling with Events quite a bit. By the way, isn’t it odd, that EventDispatcher does not reveal its listeners? At least to its subclasses? Or at the very least have some kind of “removeAllListeners()” method (like Robert Penner already noticed)? Anyway, i was thinking: Events in Flash are all over

• The “in” operator

  2884 readersJuten Tach, i work with Actionscript for some time now, but i wasn’t aware of that little thing. You can use “in” for checking, if an attribute/field exists in an object, like so: package { import flash.display.Sprite; public class Test extends Sprite { public function Test() { [...]

• Flash/iphone chapter closed, let’s move on

  2347 readersJuten Tach, now, that this flash / iphone thing is closed, Adobe, can you please make sure, that Flash Player 10.1 on Android will be nothing else but mind-blowing? You know, not like “it works OK”, but more like “wtf, is this flash? you’re kidding. this is flash? Can’t believe it, this is sooo fast!”.

• What is the Client Component Framework?

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• AS3 :: ASBlocks :: ActionsScript and Java Dom impls

  6216 readersHi, The last two weeks I have been cramming an ANTLR3 AS3.g file for both ActionScript3 and Java implementations. Refactor after refactor bug, learning, all the above going on. Today, I commented the 2000 line grammar, indented all pretty like, sectioned rules logically and thought ok, it’s time mirror over the ActionScript version again. Since

• Global Variables in ActionScript – 3/2/2012 – Episode 128 – Flextras Friday Lunch

  8698 readersI demo how to create global variables or constants in ActionScript at this weeks session. Flextras Friday Lunch is a short demo followed by open Q&A that occur the first and third Friday of every month at 1pm EST. The presentations take place over Connect. You can find out what time this occurs in your