Comments on: AS3 Mouse Events, No More Invisible Buttons

By: seigu

seigu — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:48:36 +0000

AS3 sucks balls… What used to take seconds with as2 now takes minutes with as3…. forget about simple rollovers and tell targets… now with AS3 you need to write 70 lines of code before you finally get anywhere. pathetic application

By: seigu

seigu — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:48:36 +0000

By: aaaaargh

aaaaargh — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:57:43 +0000

So AS3 has totally alienated the people who were learning flash from the ground up…I have made many websites in flash 8 and it was very easy to do the basics such as gotoAndPlay etc etc…The whole idear behind Flash cs3 and AS3 was to make it better but in doing this they have cut out the majority of amateur flash designers who really aren’t great with code and just like the design aspects.Now myself and many other people are sitting looking at a load of codes scratching our head wondering how the hell we get our pretty little pages to goto the damn next scene/frame…I want to use flash cs3 but it appears you need a deep background in coding to do even the simple things…Such a shame….I for one am gutted.

By: Indy

Indy — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:34:36 +0000

I am trying to create a hotspot for my flash movie which is a slideshow using an XML file. The aim is if someone clicks on the movie it will go to a specifed URL.

How do I create a dynamic hotspot in AS3? The hotspot will be a rectangle 320 x 204 in size (size of the stage).

Ant help is appreciated.

By: ivan pedraza

ivan pedraza — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:32:32 +0000

All of that means that we as desginers are lelft out in this AS3 arena because we are not programmer and making something like a little button can be a daunting task. Moving from a to b or b to a in the time line? This is a utterly nonsense to me.

By: Agustin

Agustin — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:33:18 +0000

It took me 5 hours of reading and 2 proyects (with a lot more hours of reading) to get going with AS3, I’m a designer and after understanding AS2 OOP and then migrating succesfully to AS3, i consider myself a self taught programmer, and every time I stumble upon a code like

gotoAndPlay(2);
and in the next frame
gotoAndPlay(1);
and in the third frame
gotoAndPlay(2);
….

I find things have become so much easier…

And once you understand the basic structure of how classes asn AS3 work, you just adore how consistent it is and you can understand new classes very fast.
Nowdays I don’t know how I managed with AS2, in the end, you think you write a lot more, but you relly don’t, belive me.
Some apps made in AS2 took me about 1500 lines of code, now it is merely 200 (and a few reused classes of my own).

I really love this new version of flash.

sory for my english, I only know ActionScript english.

By: drawk

drawk — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:40:45 +0000

Dan,

This should be an included .as or used as a document class, or an asset in your library referencing the external file in as3 compiled flash files.

By: Dan Trachtman

Dan Trachtman — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:33:16 +0000

Whenever I run the example given, I get an error”packages cannot be nested”. I have it on the first frame. Whats the problem? thanks

By: drawk

drawk — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:58:00 +0000

Hey Lief,

If you see the comments above it doesn’t have to be that complex that is mainly if you are making reusable buttons that you dont’ want to code again. You can still just put in the fla with minimal effort…

addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onMouseClickEvent);
function onMouseClickEvent(event:MouseEvent):void
{
trace(”mouse clicked on me”);
}

But AS3 is more programmer friendly mainly because it needed to attract the type of people that will make great libraries for creatives if you are more on the design than development side. Learning new things can suck but when you learn them they are a wall knocked down.

By: Lief

Lief — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:05:04 +0000

It was quite an unpleasant surprise to have three hours to sit down to make a quick and dirty flash project and spend the entire time going from site to site trying to find ready-made 100-line classes to do the thing that two lines of code used to do. I do this for fun on the side and don’t have time to put up with this shit. It’s really aggravating.