AS3 vs Lingo
This question is directed to those of you who program in
Flash and Director.
Is Flash CS3 any good? Hmm, kind of a loaded open-ended
question, let me be
a bit more specific. I like that the Flash player has such a
broad user base
and I'm currently in the planning stage for a ongoing series
of online
educational games. In Director I could code the base in less
than two days
and propagate future games (import new media, database
questions, etc. and
have .dcr file uploaded) in under three minutes.
The last time I looked at Flash, which was many, many years
ago, everything
seemed to take twice as long to develop, string parsing was a
joke, and the
handling of raster images was a nightmare, as well,
everything seemed to
need some sort of workaround or fake. Has it improved? If so,
I may take the
time to learn Flash for future online projects. I've heard
good things about
AS3, but not from someone who also uses Director.
Any thoughts/direction would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Sean
Thanks Ziggi,
I'll definitely give it a run. I've seen the AS3 structure
and liked what I
saw, I just wasn't sure about the package and workflow as a
whole.
Thanks,
Sean
"Ziggi" <ziggi@z_i_g_g_i.pl> wrote in message
news:fu3e14$kr0$[email protected]..
> Sean,
>
> It's all about complexity. Lingo is pretty lose
programming language. I
> allows you to write code easy way as it uses
behind-the-scene type
> casting as well as it's object-orientation is very
superficial.
>
> In a contrary, AS3 requires strict datatypes, stiff
naming conventions
> and it is pretty deep in object-oriented programming.
Actually, AS3 is
> much stronger beast than Lingo - no wonder riding it is
more demanding...
>
> The only problem with AS3 is... users. Many Flash users
look for simple,
> user friendly tool for simple programming tasks while
AS3 is
> full-fledged language like Java or C#. It is not the
best choice for
> Sunday-afternoon programmers. But if you get familiar
with it, you will
> enjoy its versatility and speed. Lingo is fast too, but
not that
> versatile as AS3 is.
>
> Another point is absolutely awful Flash debugging...
Adobe should really
> work on improving that point as existing Flash debugging
tools are
> programmer's disaster.
>
> Regards,
> Ziggi
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