Actionscript 2.0 support

[0level]

Hello,
I'd like to break a lance for Actionscript 2.0. It would be great for the AS-community to get a good modeler like EA is and there are thousands of developers for AS (Flash). Actionscript follows the EMCA Ed. 2 standard and is quite Java like. So I carefully guess that the integration would not be too difficult  
I'd love to hear your opinion on this.

Cheers
Olaf

[Bruno.Cossi]

Hello Olaf,

I will second that - support for Actionscript would be great!

Bruno

[SpoonsJTD]

ActionScript is a web technology used with Flash, right?  Why exactly would support be added to a Windows-based desktop application for ActionScript?

[0level]

Hi SpoonsJTD,
I do not understand your question. Actionscript runs on desktops, too and in future Shockwave will be written in an EMCA Language, too (very likely AS but thats just gossip).
Java is used as a web technology, too and yeah, it runs on Windows, also.

To be precise Actionscript is the language with which Flash files can scripted/programmed. Maybe you add some graphics and compile the whole thing. Et voilà: you have a Flash movie (swf) which can be embedded almost everywhere or you create a projector (an executable).
More info on Flash here:
http://www.openswf.org/  or
http://www.half-serious.com/swf/format/  or
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flash/flash_file_format_specification.pdf  (if you REALLY want to know)

Actionscript is OO so using a modler makes sense, don't you think?

Regards
Olaf

[SpoonsJTD]

Sorry, I misunderstood what you meant by 'integration.'  I thought you meant adding support to EA to allow EA to be automated with Actionscript, when EA already supports a very good standard mechanism for extension.

It sounds like you were asking about having hooks added to support modelling for reverse- and forward- engineering?  This I totally agree with.  The more languages EA supports, the more valuable it will be to the entire developer community.

If the code engineering aspect of EA could be abstracted out, then people could write add-ins to extend EA's code engineering for whatever language they wanted supported.  I'm not sure if this part of EA is easily extended or not (i.e., if this part of EA has an object model exposed).

[zMalcolm]

Support for Actionscript 2.0 - YES PLEASE!

[Xeal]

Hey, I wrote about exactly the same thing some time ago... although the post have been deleted  

It had the title "Import parser extensibility" and basically I was exposing my problem (I have for now more than 60 classes in AS2 and I am forced to convert them to Java sources and then import in EA for UML) and I was asking if the import parser is extensible by the user and ... well the message disappeared without a trace. I either asked the wrong question or this "YaBB" forum is buggy and users can lose posts

Anyway support for AS2 (or a generic ECMAScript 4 parser) would be a really nice addition.

Thank you,
.x.

[thomaskilian]

With 'Search' you can find your post:
15.01.04 at 07:14:51
You can find it in the General Board

[Xeal]

>With 'Search' you can find your post

Well, if I search for 'parser' the only result that pops up is this thread.
However I clicked on my name and then selected the option 'Show the last  posts of this person' and I was able to see it there. Strange, isn't it?

.x.

[thomaskilian]

I fell in a pit the first time I was using 'Search':  per default it searches only in the last 7 days You probably have to extend that period ...

[Xeal]

>per default it searches only in the last 7 days
OMG  
I've never seen a search/forum with this "feature" :-/

Well, some forums have a setting to show you only the posts in the lasts X days ... but I always set it to "ALL" and this forum doesn't have it...

Thanx for pointing it out!
.x.

[JohnDoe]

Please support Actionscript 2.0 !!!

Bernd

[tretalia]

Yes! ActionScript 2.0 for EA!

I also agree that adding hooks to allow 3rd-parties to create plugins that support BOTH reverse- and forward- engineering for unsupported languages is the way to go ultimately.