Write less and do more

Target Audience

Presenting on the second day “The Design Day”

The Title

Description

Hint

Designers

Simple solution for your everyday actionscript needs

Write less and do more

And also Developers

How do they work?

Behind the scenes

How you can contribute

Write less and do more

Brief History of Flash

What we gained?

Speed

Performance

Consistency in the language

E4X - Which makes xml handling less verbose than ever before

3

What we lost in the process?

Simplicity

Ease of use

Ease of learning 3

How to deal with the Verboseness?

Accept it as a fact of life and find ways to live with it

Keep asking Adobe

Work on some solutions ourself

Living with it

Use better Editor that writes code for you

Adobe Flash Builder 4

Flash Develop (Windows Only)

FDT

IntelliJ IDEA

Working on the Solution

Needs inspiration

ActionScript 1.0

JavaScript

Few Solutions

• SimpleAS3

• Short

• FDOT

• as3Query

SimpleAS3

Inspired by ActionScript 1.0

Works with Flash IDE (only)

Brings back onClick style event handling

Has many helper methods

Injects itself through Document Class

Uses JSFL to setup a project

Author: Josh TynjalaTwitter: @joshtynjala

SimpleAS3 Author: Josh TynjalaTwitter: @joshtynjala

// ActionScript 3 Before SimpleAS3

var imageLoader:Loader = new Loader();this.addChild( imageLoader );

var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("images/button.png");imageLoader.load( request );

loader.addEventListener( MouseEvent.CLICK, imageClickHandler );function imageClickHandler( event:MouseEvent ):void{ var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.example.com/"); navigateToURL( request, "_self" );}

SimpleAS3 Author: Josh TynjalaTwitter: @joshtynjala

// ActionScript 3 with SimpleAS3

var loader=this.loadChild("images/button.png");

loader.onClick(function(){ getURL("http://www.example.com/", "_self");});

ShortShort syntax for long statements

Inspired by SimpleAS3

Will be released a week after Adobe Flash Platform Summit :)

Does almost the same thing as SimpleAS3. But

It is lightweight

It also works with Flex SDK, thus any IDE

No need to turn off strict mode, no JSFL Needed

Distributed as .SWC

Author: Arul KumaranTwitter: @Luracast

Short Author: Arul KumaranTwitter: @Luracast

// Short Usage

_.to=this;_.onEnterFrame=function():void{ trace('enter frame once manually'); delete _.onEnterFrame;}_.stage.onceMouseMove=function():void{ trace('listen to mouse move only once');}_.onMouseClick=function(e:MouseEvent):void{ trace('listen to mouse click and get the event object');}

FDOT

a collection of ActionScript 3 classes that make hard things easier.

f.net.Load - Load text to binary with one method call and one callback.

f.net.Message - Simple callback messaging for classes.

f.data.ObjectStore - Simple object database for storing anything

Author: Ted PatrickTwitter: @__ted__

//FDOT Usage//Load.text( url:String , callback:Function , params:Object=null );

//text//load text via post using this.load method as callbackLoad.text('test.txt', load, {method: 'post', data: {a: 1}});

//jsonLoad.json('test.json', load, {method: 'post', data: {a: 1}});

//xmlLoad.xml('test.xml', load, {method: 'post', data: {a: 1}});

//see a trend yet?

//querystringLoad.querystring('test.qs', load, {method: 'post', data: {a: 1}});

//imageLoad.image('test.png', load, {method: 'post', data: {a: 1}});

//swfLoad.swf('test.swf', load, {method: 'post', data: {a: 1}});

var foo:*=new UsageModel('f.model.Sample', 'f.model.Parent', 3, "abc", {});foo.data={};foo.loader={};foo.percent=0.75;foo.bytesLoaded=[];foo.bytesTotal=56;foo.bytesAvailable=56;foo.PROGRESS='f.events.LoadEvent.PROGRESS';foo.error='woops';foo.status='status 23';foo.foo(1, 2, 3);foo.addEventListener("myEvent", function():void{});UsageModel.print();

Usage Modeling - Usage Example

package f.model{ import f.model.Parent; [Event(name="myEvent", type="flash.events.Event")] public class Sample extends Parent { public static const PROGRESS:String = "f.events.LoadEvent.PROGRESS"; public var bytesAvailable:int = 56; public var bytesLoaded:Array = []; public var bytesTotal:int = 56; public var data:Object = {}; public var error:String = "woops"; public var loader:Object = {}; public var percent:Number = 0.75; public var status:String = "status 23"; public function Sample(param1:int=3, param2:String="abc", param3:Object=null){ //TODO: implement method } public function foo(param1:int=1, param2:int=2, param3:int=3):void{ //TODO: implement method } }}

Usage Modeling - Generated Class

as3QueryInspired by jQuery.

Ported from jQuery 1.2.1

Brings lambda chain decorating to AS3

Supports CSS Selectors

Supports creating instance, and setting its properties in one line

Enables simple Event Listeners

Has addTween method to play with Tweener library

Author: NitoyonTwitter: @nitoyon

as3Query Author: NitoyonTwitter: @nitoyon

//as3Query

// add enterFrame event handler$(stage).enterFrame(function(event:Event):void {

$("RoundRect").attr("color", function(...args):uint { return Math.random() * 0xffffff; }); });}

About Me

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Twitter: @_arul

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