Comments on: Downsampling Flash – Converting AS3 to AS2

By: Stephen Matthews

Stephen Matthews — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:26:43 +0000

Hi, yes I have had to do similar things.
You get asked, “can we have this the same, but Flash 6 compatible?”
“Erm? No! that’s over 4 years out of date, I can’t even rememebr what it doesn’t support”
“But they need it Flash 6 compatible as their IT guys won’t allow the people upgrade their Flash player.”
“OK but it won’t support Blurs, I have to remove all my Tweener code – so I have to redo that a different way, maybe an animated GIF might suffice?”
etc…

That’s where you pack up yr laptop and go back to bed.

:( Bah!

By: Mims H Wright

Mims H Wright — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:44:47 +0000

You can load an AS2 SWF from an AS3 SWF and connect to it via LocalConnection

By: MrWobbles

MrWobbles — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:14:55 +0000

There are even ways to host your AS2 code in an AS3 wrapper.

What do you mean by this?

By: Aleksander

Aleksander — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:35:37 +0000

I want to inport AS3 in AS2, not to convert…. :)

By: ayakov

ayakov — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:50:47 +0000

Guys, think of FlashLite. Export for mobile platforms still only AS2.

By: somesh

somesh — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:46:37 +0000

this is fantastic. Since last five days I was trying on this but due to this page I hope I will definetly do somting more than what I think. Thank You

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MVC cheat sheet « dispatchEvent()â„¢ — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:55:19 +0000

[...] Sometimes I forget the details of whether my Model should know about my Controller and that sort of thing. I found this little MVC cheat sheet on the internet that got me straightened out in a jiffy with step-by-step instructions. The page is actually the lecture notes from one of Colin Moock’s presentations circa the Essential AS 2.0 days but it’s still very useful. Those of you struggling with the lingo, replace Observer with EventDispatcher and ignore the junk about attachMovie. God, how did we ever write AS2!? [...]

By: Nishimura

Nishimura — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:28:38 +0000

Downgrading AS3 to AS2… dude.. you are a warrior

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:02:35 +0000

The AS2 event dispatcher project you provided was really promising until I realized that the MouseEvent doesn’t actually work like AS3 :P does this mean that I’d have to actually manually dispatch the event from a traditional onPress?

Nice work btw!

By: Jason Langdon

Jason Langdon — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:32:39 +0000

So it had a lot more to do with the fact they wanted to use Flash 8 or lower than the fact the wanted to use AS2…?

By: foreground

foreground — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:42:17 +0000

Why haXe had not used?

By: Mims Wright

Mims Wright — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:00:06 +0000

It had to do with banner ad trafficking.

By: Jason Langdon

Jason Langdon — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:18:41 +0000

I’m curious, why did the client require that the Flash “absolutely must be AS2″?

By: Luis Neng

Luis Neng — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:08:49 +0000

I had to downgrade once because the projector program I was using doesn’t work in AS3 and I only figured it out after completing the application.

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dispatchEvent()â„¢ » Blog Archive » AS2 EventDispatcher — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:09:55 +0000

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