Comments on: My take on ActionScript 3.0: Is It Hard or Not? http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/01/23/my-take-on-actionscript-30-is-it-hard-or-not/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:46:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Tim N http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/01/23/my-take-on-actionscript-30-is-it-hard-or-not/#comment-57410 Tim N Tue, 20 May 2008 10:47:07 +0000 http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/01/23/my-take-on-actionscript-30-is-it-hard-or-not/#comment-57410 Lovely post, and ive bookmarked your lovely site! From a Designerveloper's point of view, i've made several websites in AS2 and with a lot of ease. I work as an interactive designer for a digital agency and a huge part of my job is developing flash banners for Car Companies and New Film releases. Banner designers and small site builders are really going to suffer hard. My company are willing to pay for my training in As3 but for the smaller company the step up into OOP is going take its toll! We are already seeing many Designervelopers leave developing sites altogether and you will see over the next few years many who have won FWA awards from smaller low budget fantastic concept websites will loose out to BIG budget companies who can afford a a full time designer and deveoper working side by side. In my view its a sad time for the flash community. The days of finding fresh design / developer talent from a young age looks like its coming to an end and wenever that happens to an industry it starts to slow down and one are (developers) becomes over swamped with too many to fill too little roles.... just my two cents Lovely post, and ive bookmarked your lovely site!

From a Designerveloper’s point of view, i’ve made several websites in AS2 and with a lot of ease. I work as an interactive designer for a digital agency and a huge part of my job is developing flash banners for Car Companies and New Film releases.

Banner designers and small site builders are really going to suffer hard. My company are willing to pay for my training in As3 but for the smaller company the step up into OOP is going take its toll! We are already seeing many Designervelopers leave developing sites altogether and you will see over the next few years many who have won FWA awards from smaller low budget fantastic concept websites will loose out to BIG budget companies who can afford a a full time designer and deveoper working side by side.

In my view its a sad time for the flash community. The days of finding fresh design / developer talent from a young age looks like its coming to an end and wenever that happens to an industry it starts to slow down and one are (developers) becomes over swamped with too many to fill too little roles….

just my two cents

]]> By: Ken http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/01/23/my-take-on-actionscript-30-is-it-hard-or-not/#comment-55848 Ken Thu, 08 May 2008 07:34:28 +0000 http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/01/23/my-take-on-actionscript-30-is-it-hard-or-not/#comment-55848 Hi, I'm a Designveloper and I'm very worried about this. It use to be 2 lines: on (release) { getURL("http://[website].com", "_self"); } I use to program on JavaScript and this helped me a lot learning ActionScript (1 & 2). I understand some ASP and Visual Basic 6 but this is the other side of the wall, the side of C# and Java :-s I must jump the wall and try to survive! Hi, I’m a Designveloper and I’m very worried about this.

It use to be 2 lines:
on (release) {
getURL(”http://[website].com”, “_self”);
}

I use to program on JavaScript and this helped me a lot learning ActionScript (1 & 2). I understand some ASP and Visual Basic 6 but this is the other side of the wall, the side of C# and Java :-s

I must jump the wall and try to survive!

]]> By: mike w http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/01/23/my-take-on-actionscript-30-is-it-hard-or-not/#comment-54969 mike w Fri, 02 May 2008 00:11:53 +0000 http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/01/23/my-take-on-actionscript-30-is-it-hard-or-not/#comment-54969 actually, not to disagree with mike but it is fairly easy to learn the new 3.0. though my banner code wouldn't have so much stuff in it like his. skyButton.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClickHandler) function buttonClickHandler (event :MouseEvent):void { navigateToURL (new URLRequest("http://hiddenalleypromotions.webs.com")); } only 4 lines compared to your 10.... actually, not to disagree with mike but it is fairly easy to learn the new 3.0. though my banner code wouldn’t have so much stuff in it like his.
skyButton.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClickHandler)
function buttonClickHandler (event :MouseEvent):void {
navigateToURL (new URLRequest(”http://hiddenalleypromotions.webs.com”));
}

only 4 lines compared to your 10….

]]> By: Mike http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/01/23/my-take-on-actionscript-30-is-it-hard-or-not/#comment-54650 Mike Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:17:54 +0000 http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/01/23/my-take-on-actionscript-30-is-it-hard-or-not/#comment-54650 This is not the case. Actionscript take simple tasks and makes them incredibly complicated. I'm sure it opens a lot of potential, but I'm outraged by how long it took me to learn how to do something as simple as linking the flash file to a URL so that when I click the flash it goes somewhere: import flash.events.MouseEvent; import flash.net.*; function openPage(event:MouseEvent):void { var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("postit.php"); navigateToURL(request, "_self"); } inv_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, openPage); ... give me a break... This is not the case. Actionscript take simple tasks and makes them incredibly complicated. I’m sure it opens a lot of potential, but I’m outraged by how long it took me to learn how to do something as simple as linking the flash file to a URL so that when I click the flash it goes somewhere:

import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.net.*;

function openPage(event:MouseEvent):void
{
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(”postit.php”);
navigateToURL(request, “_self”);
}

inv_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, openPage);

… give me a break…

]]> By: Jon MacDonald http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/01/23/my-take-on-actionscript-30-is-it-hard-or-not/#comment-40968 Jon MacDonald Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:31:29 +0000 http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/01/23/my-take-on-actionscript-30-is-it-hard-or-not/#comment-40968 Mrinal -- great point. That is something I didn't really consider, but crossover from other languages is certainly aiding in the adoption of AS3, and that would tilt the bias toward developers instead of designers or "designvelopers". Mrinal — great point. That is something I didn’t really consider, but crossover from other languages is certainly aiding in the adoption of AS3, and that would tilt the bias toward developers instead of designers or “designvelopers”.

]]> By: Mrinal Wadhwa http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/01/23/my-take-on-actionscript-30-is-it-hard-or-not/#comment-40966 Mrinal Wadhwa Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:11:23 +0000 http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/2008/01/23/my-take-on-actionscript-30-is-it-hard-or-not/#comment-40966 I wouldn't say that the "designveloper" group is shrinking, rather the developer group is growing way too rapidly in comparison to the other two groups and this I think can be partially attributed to the ease of learning AS3 for someone coming from a Java or C# background. I wouldn’t say that the “designveloper” group is shrinking, rather the developer group is growing way too rapidly in comparison to the other two groups and this I think can be partially attributed to the ease of learning AS3 for someone coming from a Java or C# background.

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