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haXe Tutorial

Wednesday 27 January 2010 - Filed under ActionScript 3 + tutorials + videos

This tutorial is for anyone who has heard about haXe, but never had the time to figure out how to set it up. If you guys show a lot of interest in learning more about haXe, I’ll put together a few more tutorials on some of the features, but as of right now I have no idea what kind of interest is out there:

*note – I tried “fast forwarding” through the download/install portions, but the camtasia “clip speed” couldn’t accurately fast forward only the parts I selected.

2010-01-27  »  johnlindquist

  • michelle
    If you can show some more tutorials on how to use haxe with flashdevelop I'd appreciate it so much! - this tutorial was really helpful to start but can you show us some more things that can be done?
  • Someone
    Yea sounds cool.. but what is the advantage of making people adhere less to strict data typing, and well expressed variable definitions and coding conventions?

    I still remember that Adobe wanted to preach the new culture of programming after having released AS3 as true OOP language, I think requiring programmers to stick more to the current AS3 trends is more efficient than just jumping to stick to some short-cuts while developing.

    Another interesting thing, is how would you access the event passed to you listener in the example provided? anyway there should be a standard way like adobe specified in their AS3, though I am sure Haxe has, but I dislike the fact I am required to search now for how to catch the parameter encapsulated properties like(target, currentTarget, etc..) through that new "dash".

    And, the most important question on my side is: To what extent can Haxe be effecient in developemtn, I mean performance, as long as what it seems that Haxe is an outer class embedding generic Flash classes, working like a median between end user AS3 and Haxe new syntax. instead of compiling code to meet AS3 I guess It would be better to maintain less DCE cycles, and to save the poor JIT from running some extra couple times to re evaluate what it had expected to find - ADOBE AS3 :)
    Thanks anyway for your precious posts John. I am really fan of you :)
  • smakhtin
    Very nice tutorial. I'm interested in more publications about haXe.
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