Feb 23 2011

FLASH IS OKAY I GUESS

I started messing around with FlashDevelop and HaXe this morning, seeing what I could do in terms of just spamming pixels for some simple software rendering. It’s super slow, so I imagine in practice Flash graphics really are limited to blitting sprites and vectors and so on – all that higher level stuff  – but it’s not terrible.

Adobe claim they’re working on an API for access to fully programmable hardware accelerated 3D. It’s called “Molehill” and they reckon it’ll be out for public beta some time in the next few months. This seems well overdue but should be interesting 🙂

My first Flash app ever below the jump! It’s nothing special – I’ve only been poking this for 4 or 5 hours.

wheee

Okay, being able to embed stuff on pages is awesome! It feels somehow natural and very sexy.

I am fairly sure this is the FUTURE. Why can’t we embed everything yet?

4 Comments on “FLASH IS OKAY I GUESS”

  1. what is this 1997!!111

    get with the HTML5 future, that’s right they’re up to 5 now. 5!!

  2. So are you using HaXe to write the code in and then targeting it to Flash or writing “raw” ActionScript?

    If you are using HaXe does it live up to the promise?

  3. Hanzonaut is right! HTML5 is the FUTURE!
    But we’re not living in the future, and at present HTML 5 is slower, offers less features and has no mature dev tools.

    Flash is a better choice for what (i’m assuming) you want to do at the moment.

  4. @Colm Mac: Yeah, I’m writing in HaXe and targeting ActionScript 3.

    As for whether HaXe ‘lives up to the promise’, I’m afraid I can’t answer that. “The promise” is that it’s better than ActionScript, right? But I’ve never used ActionScript 😀

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