Comments on: Top 6 AS3 features you miss when switching back to AS2

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:21:11 +0000

Did anyone ever find out how to utilize “shared libraries” for actual production value?

That is what I’d like to know .Especially since the library in CS4 performs terribly if you have a lot of nested MovieClips. Please let me know if you’ve found any solutions. Keep up the good work.

By: Barklund

Barklund — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:56:10 +0000

@Iain: well, I don’t really miss them in AS2 actually. They’re handy, but not necessary IMO :)

@Daniel Albu: I think I covered that one under Number 3 ;) Yes, it is a pain in the a**, that there is no error checking in AS2.

By: Daniel Albu

Daniel Albu — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:27:35 +0000

also if you misspell a variable name in AS2, it won’t inform you.

you can write in AS2:

var testMe:Number = 0;
testme++;

and not understand why testMe is still zero (or for that matter why testme is NaN)

In AS3 you’d get an error about testme not being initialized.

By: Iain

Iain — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:26:31 +0000

Events!