AS3 in four days
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- GeorgesII
Does anyone knows where can I find the best tutorials to learn AS3 online,
I bought a book on the subject,
I have a good knowledge of AS2,
I have 4 days to understand and put together a flash project,right now you are probably asking yourself, why won't he use AS2?
It's simple, I need to load dynamically graph bars, that will be called via xml and AS2 doesn't work nicely.
Thank you,
here is a cool gif
- animatedgif0
I think AS2 is sufficient for loading some numbers and drawing a few rectangles.
- care to elaborate?
thanks :)GeorgesII - AS2 can read XML files and it can certainly draw rectangles. It'll be fine for the jobanimatedgif
- care to elaborate?
- WeLoveNoise0
Lynda
- hans_glib0
your cool gif reminds me of this game
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/games…
- CyBrainX0
AS3 is severely different than AS3 and can't be learned well enough in 4 days to take on a project. However, I agree that you can use xml do generate charts with AS2.
- ukit0
I've written plenty of dynamically generated Flash pieces in AS2 that read in XML.
Here's a tutorial that includes an example FLA:
- thanks man,
the next 4 days will be interrestingGeorgesII - The XML stuff is actually easier than it looks. Just got to wrap your head around it:)ukit
- The problem is..
I have no HEAD
da dada duuuummmGeorgesII - Lol george.Hombre_Lobo
- thanks man,
- ok_not_ok0
essential actionscript 3.0 by colin moock
- Yep.mikotondria3
- < Thisboobs
- Amen. I read almost all of the 800 pages. It was the only thing that got me to understand it at all.CyBrainX
- Hombre_Lobo0
If I know coding (and I don't), its clear an as2 / as3 project won't work with dynamically generated graphs and charts.
However a new piece of software that I've been amazed with would be far more suitable, its called 'Powerpoint'.
No need to thank me, just trying to help.
- LOL,
where can I torrent it, is it open sourceGeorgesII - hehe :D
its like the only job powerpoint can do, GRAPHS AND CHARTS!!Hombre_Lobo - that gif in the OP is stunning.Hombre_Lobo
- LOL,
- Boz0
okay.. here's the easiest way..
use Greensock's XML parser in AS2. It's obsolete in AS3 because AS3 comes with great XML parsing capabilities but Greensock is VERY VERY similar to the real deal in AS3. So if you want to deal with AS2 use Greensock XML classes and when you get a hang of it you can very easily transition to AS3.
I used this one for a long time when I worked with AS2.
http://www.greensock.com/xmlpars…
- ahli0
like the guys said, if you under pressure..slip the project out using AS2.
Perhaps once its finished, work on the transition to AS3 in your own time?...you will less likely follow the hacky path and might learn something on the way.
- Hombre_Lobo0
JOB. DONE.
- ********0
You could do this with php and GD library, way better than using AS3
- GeorgesII0
^
problem is that it will included in another site I'm not involved in,
I'm just making that part of the site, they'll give me the xml and I'll have to make it work... some how
- Autokern0
anyway, most of the pain is in parsing the XML, as soon as you have the data nicely stored on some array you can do your animation with tweener/greensock tween either in AS2 or 3
- GeorgesII0
thank you all for your help,
- anyone interrested,
video is fuckn priceless
http://www.youtube.c…GeorgesII
- anyone interrested,