Trouble migrating to Actionscript 3?

by James on 27th February, 2008 in ActionScript

Well, a quick Google would find you a plethora of pages, giving you pretty much exactly the same thing – that is, AS2 to AS3 migration guides. A list of function name / class hierachy changes only goes so far, however – nothing seems to deal with the bigger problem – just how much AS3 has changed from the previous iterations.

If it was just as simple as changing function names it’d be easy, but there’s a whole new set of methods for doing things, and often you don’t know what you’re even looking for to help you. Ever heard of getDefinitionByName? Nope, me neither – but it turned out to be the function I was looking for yesterday.

Anyway, by far the best introduction to ActionScript 3 (not just the function name changes) is one I found from Senocular, Getting Started with ActionScript 3 (for Flash).

ActionScript 3, AS3, AS3 Migration

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James is a Senior New Media Developer at MMT Digital, and has BA(Hons) in Design for Interactive Media from the University of Gloucestershire. He loves designing and producing all sorts of website and Flash-related things, as well as prattling on about technologies.Day-to-day he works with Flash, Dreamweaver, Director, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and in his spare time he mucks about in Flex and Wordpress.Follow James on Twitter.