Article:		ActionScript 3.0: Is It Hard or Not?
Subject:		It's the buttons that are killing me
Date:		2007-12-22 18:10:09
From:		mindymcadams
Usually I don't need to move a ball around, or attachMovie. I have to build simple interfaces. Five buttons, five frame labels. Divide up some animated content, make it accessible via buttons. The listener business and the additional code required by AS3 for the most common symbol I need to use -- simple, "click me" buttons -- has made AS3 seem, to me, all those things you have so elegantly argued against here. Your examples are great. But it is the AS3 button scripting that has driven me back to AS2.

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• It's the buttons that are killing me
  2008-01-21 13:05:19  Colin Moock | [View]
  
  
  the button event handling issue is certainly important. as i wrote in the article, i think adobe needs to figure out a way to support an improved version of on()/onClipEvent() with proper tool support. maybe thermo or bordeaux will provide the feature-set you need.

• It's the buttons that are killing me
  2008-01-21 12:54:03  Colin Moock | [View]
  
  
  the button event handling issue is certainly important. as i wrote in the article, i think adobe needs to figure out a way to support an improved version of on()/onClipEvent() with proper tool support. maybe thermo or bordeaux will provide the feature-set you need.