Flash Player 8.5 and Actionscript 3.0

[..:: Mazhar Hasan ::..]

Guys guys guys!

 just after hardly one month of release of flash and flash player 8, macromedia has decided to jump a huge distance again. The new Flash player 8.5 is almost ready to  launch with new VM(virtual machine), AS 3.0 and many new enhancements in actionscript to make actionscript's reputation near C# or JAVA by adding E4X and REGULAR EXPRESSIONS. The version 8 release seemed as desgners only update but this thing is really gonna change the whole world of software developers
 You can read more on :
flash guru.co.uk
to learn more about E4X the XML Specifications by ECMA see this link: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-357.htm

[..:: Mazhar Hasan ::..]

The new Flash player 8.5 is almost ready to launch

Well! not almost ready, i have just heard from MM spoksman Mike Downey that its gonna release on with the next version of Flash due in spring of 2006 however, a preview will be made available shortly so that developers can make them acustoned with these new trends and flash player 8.5 is packed and will be shipped with the new Flex Builder 2.0.

[Jorge Solis]

Some keys about the topic in http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex2_intro.html

Jorge

[vesa kortelainen]

macromedia <labs> wiki got article about ActionScript 3.0 - http://labs.macromedia.com/wiki/index.php/ActionScript_3

[vesa kortelainen]

Collected links to ActionScript 3.0 examples 

[Mattias Robo]

Hmm.. I feel a bit indecisive about AS 3 I must say.
There are of course loads of new really useful stuff, but at the same time it seems to become more and more like Java, C++ and such languages (wich is an outcome of all the useful and performance improving stuff).

The good thing about Flash and AS I think, is that you can build complex applications but keeping the UI userfriendly and the code quite intuitive.
With AS3 it seems that you can't even write 'button.onPress' without having to import a bunch of classes and adding event listeners.
That part of it, I don't like. It will move Flash from the web designer closer to the computer programmer. Flash will be less fun and more academic.

I have of course only seen small parts of it and dunno if the examples I've seen only accounts for Flex, and maybe I take it personally since I'm not a computer programmer, but I just hope that Macromedia (Adobe) will put some effort in keeping Flash effective and userfriendly.

:: robot

[vesa kortelainen]

With AS3 it seems that you can't even write 'button.onPress' without having to import a bunch of classes and adding event listeners.
That part of it, I don't like. It will move Flash from the web designer closer to the computer programmer. Flash will be less fun and more academic.

I have of course only seen small parts of it and dunno if the examples I've seen only accounts for Flex...

:: robot

I agree with Mattias, I just seen small parts, but I could be that AS3.0 is more Flex - related.. I should try Flex 2 Alpha, even the System requirements are what they are..