<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'm doing a AS2 to AS3 port right now on a rather large code base.<DIV>Once you get passed the hurdle of how things work different in AS3 it's not</DIV><DIV>so bad. It is a rather large jump though.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So I'm guessing the work of porting is only as hard as it was to build it</DIV><DIV>the first time minus the part of figuring out the logic.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The is a nice little area in the Flash 9 help files under Actionscript 3.0 Language</DIV><DIV>and Components Reference -> Appendix -> Actionscript 2.0 Migration that</DIV><DIV>shows what methods were changed and what to use in AS3 as a replacement.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Then just learn about the new methods you need first.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>That's my 2 cents...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-bop</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 23, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Gaby Vanhegan wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BR><DIV><DIV>On 23 Oct 2007, at 15:43, Jeremy Sachs wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">As for porting your AS2 project over, you may have some difficulty with that, depending on how much of your code in in the .fla file. I suggest you develop a simple game (like Pong :) to get the hang of things before attempting your port. I expect that most of your code is reusable, but you may want to refactor large portions of it to work more intuitively in the new language.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Having read this:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/as3withflashcs3/">http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/as3withflashcs3/</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I think I'm better of refactoring the whole lot from scratch. There's so many small changes and the project itself is such a beast that I'm better off just starting with a blank canvas and porting over the classes one at a time. It's going to be a bit painful but well worth the effort in the long term.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'll still be able to write the AS code in TextMate but properly using mxmlc is a ways off... 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