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By: chrismarx

chrismarx — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:35:59 +0000

does anyone have or know of a place with examples of using the as3query library in conjunction with an mxml page? i would like an example that maybe has some mxml elements, and shows jquery like event binding-

By: drawk

drawk — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:07:56 +0000

Looks like it is still up you can browse it here, there are only a few classes you can grab then from there. I didn’t have a problem with the SVN maybe something was up for a bit.

http://www.libspark.org/svn/as3/as3Query/src/com/nitoyon/as3query/

By: Darksaint

Darksaint — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:00:23 +0000

I’m having the same problem with the svn. When I try to connect I get an error “301 moved permanently”. That’s a bit sad.

By: Brit

Brit — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:52:50 +0000

Somehow I missed this too ! Thanks for bringing it to my attention. The SVN doesn’t seem to working for me, have the same problem?

By: onedayitwillmake

onedayitwillmake — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:44:20 +0000

Alright cool makes sense. i’ll force myself to use it on a few things, to get the hang of it.

By: drawk

drawk — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:09:48 +0000

Hey mario,

Yeh I can do some more samples I am using it in a flex project right now. Basically it just allows a jQuery like interface in actionscript, your familiar with jQuery for javascript?

Although this goes against static typing it is a bit more dynamic or functional languages based. jQuery is based on a lambda output that always returns another jQuery object. People big in formal programming (math based) dig this type of structure. jQuery is really fast to chain events and the same can be done with as3query. It also provides a selector $() function that is like prototype, jquery, mootools for javascript. It might make people who only do ajax with jquery or the others more at home in AS3 and bring in more programmers/coders into as3.

I dont’ know the performance impact but will have more on this and some samples from this flex project when completed. The jist of it is it takes static properties and methods and makes them available in dynamic objects much like popular tweening syntaxes or object based calls.

By: mario gonzalez

mario gonzalez — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:36:48 +0000

Hmm, and mind you this is NOT sarcastic at all, but could you explain the point of this library a bit more?

It’s a classic case of, “Well i’ve been without it for so long, i need some convincing to see why i should use this instead of just doing it the old way”

I had to have the same explained to me when my co-worker told me about classes a long time ago. Can you maybe create a few more examples, of timesaving that would be gained by using this?

Thanks,
mario -at- wddg.com