[osflash] haXe Physics Engine

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can haxe compile old flash mx component ?

thanks

Franck Chionna
Freelance  Developer


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Winterhalder" <mark13 at gmail.com>
To: "Open Source Flash Mailing List" <osflash at osflash.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: [osflash] haXe Physics Engine


> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Dave Mennenoh
> <dave at blurredistinction.com> wrote:
>> >>Though I'm a little confused about haXe, what is it's purpose?
>>
>>  I'm in the same boat... I've seen haxe mentioned here and there, but 
>> never
>>  looked at it. I don't know any developers who have used it either, so I 
>> just
>>  don't quite get it. So, haxe has it's own dev environment? Do people who 
>> use
>>  haxe not use Flash? I'd really need to be convinced to spend any time
>>  learning it... it took me long enough to get decent at AS.
>
>
> Apart from the standard haXe argument (can compile for flash6-8,
> flash9, the Neko Vm and generate Javascript), it compiles faster code
> than the AS3 compiler and features a great type system. Have a look at
> <http://haxe.org/ref#class_parameters>, for example (there's more,
> like Enums and Typedefs). For the average AS coder those features may
> seem a bit strange at first, but they turn out to be very helpful when
> you got used to them.
> All that typing may seem as if it was a bit much to type (on your
> keyboard), but quite the opposite is true. The haXe compiler allows
> you to imply types. So, if you have a method 'foo' that returns an
> integer, var bar = a.foo() will type bar as an integer.
>
> Learning haXe is quite easy if you're coming from AS. For..in loops
> behave differently, but there aren't many other differences, even the
> API is the same (AS3 API when you compile for flash9). haXe's
> additional features are there if you want them, but you could simply
> do things the way you would with AS at first, with only minimal
> adjustments.
>
> "Come for performance, stay for the type system."
>
> Mark
>
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