[osflash] [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0

[Chris Benjaminsen]

What im mostley looking farward to is the binary sockets. Im praying 
that they are not handicaped like the curent XMLSockets.

Think IRC client in flash :)

/Chris


Darron J. Schall wrote:

>Scott Hyndman wrote:
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>>How different do you think the language will be? Won't be much more than an extension of AS2, will it? Like I guess they could introduce true private variables or something, so that I'd have to change the access modifiers on a bunch of my methods, but it isn't too tough to adapt.
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>The language probably won't be too much different, as it's still 
>following ECMAScript.  However, the entire Event model / "DOM" is different.
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>http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/productinfo/faq/flex2_faq.html
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>"ActionScript 3 also supports the core object W3C standard DOM Level 3 
>event model."
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>"ActionScript 3 introduces several new language features that increase 
>developer productivity and simplify maintenance of applications, 
>including the ability to use strong typing, native E4X support, and a 
>new Display List API that makes it easier for developers to structure 
>and control user interfaces."
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>Plus, from http://www.waldosmeets.com/index.cfm?entryID=593
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>"A brand new, highly-optimized ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2) 
>embedded in Flash Player 8.5; including E4X, regular expressions, 
>integrated event handling, runtime error reporting and binary sockets;"
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>Notice there's "regular expressions" in there.  :-)
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