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From: Stephan B. <be...@xs...> - 2007-06-07 07:15:40
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Owen van Dijk wrote: > Hi all, > > I asked the question a little over 6 months ago and i see a bit of > activity on SVN. What's the roadmap for ASAP in AS3? I'm about to > start a big project in AS3 and i'm looking into frameworks, ASAP being > my preference :) > > Hi Owen, We have indeed started on conversion of the framework to AS3. This is placed in a branche in Subversion. Here at Lost Boys we're also in the process of transitioning to AS3, so you can expect updates of the new framework pretty soon. However, this is more than just conversion of existing classes, since the new language & player classes provide us with so much more functionality that we previously had to provide for ourselves. Among the classes that have disappeared, are Event, EventMovieClip& EventDispatcher. Also the EventButton base class, with its coupling to the LocalController, seems to have lost its need because of the new bubbling of events. Of the current packages in the AS3 branch, the package for data handling is more or less stable & usable. The ActionQueue is in an extended phase of conversion, but doesn't compile with the final release of Flash CS3 yet. Some tweaking needed there therefore. The FramePulse & FrameDelay are also usable. As soon as we have a set of classes that we deem usable as a whole and as a framework, we will release an alpha. After all, the best way to test these classes is by using them in projects. Your feedback at that stage will be more than welcome :) As for a time period, we're aiming to start transitioning to AS3 here at Lost Boys around august. Development around that time should see a significant speedup. But also expect radical changes in interfaces in that period, because of all the new stuff in AS3. Hope this answers your questions! If you have suggestions, feel free to contact us. Yours, Stephan |