{"id":58,"date":"2007-05-26T23:20:56","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T15:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevennet.cc\/magazine\/?p=58"},"modified":"2007-11-20T23:38:03","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T15:38:03","slug":"im-left-behind-by-actionscript-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevennet.cc\/magazine\/im-left-behind-by-actionscript-30\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m left behind by ActionScript 3.0&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"424\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stevennet.cc\/blog\/flashAS3.jpg\" style=\"border-width: 0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was excited when have chance to test out some new features in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/flash\/\"><strong><font color=\"#1e60a2\">Adobe Flash CS3<\/font><\/strong><\/a>, impressed by the clean interface and great integration between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/\"><strong><font color=\"#1e60a2\">Adobe<\/font><\/strong><\/a> softwares.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Of course, as usual, I&#8217;m ready to explore the new features of <strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff\"><font color=\"#800000\">Actionscript 3.0<\/font><\/span><\/strong> (AS3), expecting can use on my in-plan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryangiggs.cc\/\"><strong><font color=\"#1e60a2\">RyanGiggs.cc<\/font><\/strong><\/a> website revamp. But, saddest thing happen, the implementation of AS3 is totally different from AS2, AS3 now is fully using <em>Object-Oriented Programming<\/em> (OOP), which I have totally no idea how to use!!!<\/p>\n<p>I tried to calm down myself by trying some simple AS2-style script in AS3, but soon i found out it&#8217;s totally cannot works at all! For a non-programmer-background Flash user like me, it is a big blow, a big shock that my hardwork-learning on AS2 is useless now, I have to start learning AS3 from <strong>zero<\/strong>&#8230; again&#8230;. Suddenly i felt like poured by a big pile ice-cold water, all my fantasy and fun to develop web Flash gone&#8230;&#8230; a real set back to a non-programmer-background Flash user, ME.<\/p>\n<p>Although Flash CS3 still allow us to use AS2 to continue develop our works, BUT, if I&#8217;m not learning AS3, I can see that I will not be able to chase the future Flash development anymore. I guess i have to forget my sadness and try hard to learn AS3 from basic, very hard, i hope&#8230;&#8230; at least to make a simple clickable button&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m really miss my ex-Australian colleague, he is my mentor of Actionscript, teach me and guided me to understand the programming world (thanks Corey <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">\ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/strong>), now I have no idea who should I speak to if i&#8217;m stuck in programing (although i&#8217;m not a programmer&#8230;)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A true reality we need to face in <strong>IT<\/strong>, if you are not chasing, learning, following the new tech, you will be dump behind sooner or later, and the margin is growing rapidly&#8230;&#8230; rest in peace&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Wish myself good luck, gambateh&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was excited when have chance to test out some new features in Adobe Flash CS3, impressed by the clean interface and great integration between Adobe softwares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevennet.cc\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevennet.cc\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevennet.cc\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevennet.cc\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevennet.cc\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevennet.cc\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevennet.cc\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevennet.cc\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevennet.cc\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}