• Madox
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Topic: HaXe... why the lack of love?

I've had owned two Chumbies for over 18 months without getting really starting on the hacking side after the initial enthusiasm.

Looking into open source flash development, it seems there are quite a few examples on-line for mtasc actionscript 2 but almost NOTHING for HaXe, the supposedly successor of mtasc.  There was a surprising lack of examples/source code online for Chumby+HaXe.  There were a few tutorials on Flash+HaXe but those were geared towards Flash 9.

Is there anyone else out there using HaXe for the chumby?  Why do people prefer to continue to use AS2+MTASC?

PS : If anyone is interested, I've posted my experiments on getting HaXe to work with Chumby into google code... Disclaimer : Completely new to HaXe/Flash programming.
http://code.google.com/p/mchumby/source … #svn/trunk

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2 Reply by jvc (edited by jvc 2009-03-21 15:39:55)

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Re: HaXe... why the lack of love?

Flash lite doesn't do AS3 so you would have to write your own Flash Player for Haxe as well

-edit, It appears haxe can compile AS2 code as well, I always thought it was for AS3

  • Madox
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Re: HaXe... why the lack of love?

I actually really don't get it now that I've finally given it a try.
Its very easy to use and very quick to develop flash widgets for the chumby smile

I have been prototyping a couple of standalone widgets and posted some screenshots/photos here :- http://www.madox.net/blog/2009/04/06/mc … ce-design/

Some interesting things I seemed to have found out is that Chumby is 'almost flash 8' but not really, I really should read the FlashLite 3 documentation I suppose.

PS : Can anyone tell me if that video at the end loads?  Its of my 'Still in one piece' Chumby smile

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Re: HaXe... why the lack of love?

http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flas … dev.tar.gz

Flash 10 Standalone player for Linux now happily replaces Gnash for me smile
So now its HaXe + Geany + Flash 10 Standalone for my Ubuntu widget development smile

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