AS2 ---> AS3
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SteveJobs,
Yup unfortunately the casual nature of AS2 is kind of gone now when you switch to the class package system. It was the casualty of how Boz puts it 'a unified platform.' It's kind of funny how there seem to be two different sets of people concerning AS2/AS3 migration - the people who wanted to just dabble in AS2 and the people who welcomed AS3 as a next step. I was definitely of the latter, but I can totally see why the people of the former group would be pretty pissed and view this as almost an attack on their lively hood. If I weren't 'into' Actionscript, and was forced to learn a new process that by all accounts relies on using even more code I'd be pretty mad too. Although it seems like it's not all that hard to continue with the way most casual AS2 guys used to do things, i.e. code in the timeline and assets on the stage. The problem I see here is that most people who write tutorials on AS3 have switched to just using the Document Class system and writing class packages. Leaving a lot of the casual users out in the cold regarding learning AS3.
Maybe someone should do more AS3 tutorials with the casual users in mind? Cause it seems to me, even though I rely on the class package system so I'm not positive, that a transition from AS2 to AS3 could be a lot less frustrating for the people who don't want to learn all of the ecapsulation/OOP sort of ideology could be a lot less painless then it must seem.