Tag Archives: ActionScript 3

Updating from AS2 to AS3 with Find and replace

I’m kidding really – there is no way you could find and replace your AS2 code into AS3 Actionscript 3 is hugely different from Actionscript 2, but that doesn’t meant that you can’t do a lot of the grunt work using a simple find and replace

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Finding a specific node in an AS3 XML object

Continuing with my updating an Actionscript 2 project to Actionscript 3 I’m really enjoying the optimisation possibilities that AS3 provides.

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Actionscript 3: Inheritance Subclass and private vars

I’m currently updating some as2 projects to as3 and I had a series of 1120 compiler errors this afternoon. I’m a fan of using the ‘extends’ keyword to create customised versions of base classes. In Actionscript 2 the subclass can access all the variables and methods of the original class. It appears that in ActionScript [...]

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