ActionScript 4 and 5 Wishlist

Posted by David Tucker in Flash, FlexFeb 16th, 2008 | 23 responses

A bit of discussion has developed from my previous article, Moock on ActionScript 4 about features that people would like to see in future versions of ActionScript. Obviously at the top of the list (mentioned by Dave) we have Threads. Does anyone have other things you want to see in the next versions of ActionScript?




23 Responses to “ActionScript 4 and 5 Wishlist”

  1. Dave says:
    February 16, 2008 at 7:48 pm

    I don’t want to be the only contributor to this list, but non-public class constructors would be nice as well.

  2. David Tucker says:
    February 16, 2008 at 7:49 pm

    I agree. As much as I know some people will disagree: I would also like to see abstract classes.

  3. Claus Wahlers says:
    February 16, 2008 at 8:12 pm

    Typed Arrays..

  4. David Tucker says:
    February 16, 2008 at 8:14 pm

    @Claus – It appears that if that part of ECMAScript 4 makes it way into ActionScript 4 – you will get your wish.

  5. barry.b says:
    February 17, 2008 at 4:41 am

    have a look at generics in C# and how C# handle nulls now in primitive datatypes.

  6. Nick Kwiatkowski says:
    February 17, 2008 at 7:01 am

    One of the things I miss the most from C++ is method and constructor overloading.

  7. David Tucker says:
    February 17, 2008 at 7:25 am

    @Nick – It appears that if elements of ECMAScript 4 get adopted for ActionScript 4 we will have method overloading.

  8. Luke says:
    February 17, 2008 at 2:01 pm

    private constructors
    operator overloading
    typed arrays
    proper XPath support!

  9. Phil Douglas says:
    February 17, 2008 at 3:30 pm

    Enums

  10. Elango says:
    February 23, 2008 at 3:54 am

    Threading

  11. Alan Queen says:
    February 23, 2008 at 8:50 am

    Built in support for manipulating audio at the byte/sample level ;)

  12. ryan says:
    March 4, 2008 at 9:15 am

    yeah i second that elango, the sound api needs some work… looks like we gonna get a byte datatype though… (could be a start?)

  13. cimmicola says:
    May 16, 2008 at 2:39 am

    well,let me think, besides some others’ requirements, plus some more :
    1.eval function return. it’s still very usefull.
    2.static statement block.
    3.size much more smaller.
    4.performance improve, not only the graphic, also get data from server side.
    5.destruction funtion.
    6.gc..

  14. hackee says:
    July 22, 2008 at 7:31 am

    nullable types for primitive datatypes, for representing null value in database, like int? construct in C#.

  15. zszen says:
    December 16, 2008 at 1:49 am

    require 3d engine. as3 3d custom-engine is so slow.

  16. zszen says:
    January 13, 2009 at 9:59 am

    1.Faster [than as3]
    2.Support real-3d-engine
    3.Smarter

  17. Filipe says:
    February 9, 2009 at 12:29 pm

    I agree on threading. =)

    C#-like events would be awesome (built-in Event type), so we could define them in interfaces.

    A better control on the garbage collector.

  18. Xegnma says:
    February 15, 2009 at 12:39 pm

    1. Private Constructors
    2. Threading
    3. Operator Overloading
    4. Generics

  19. bxl994 says:
    May 6, 2009 at 3:03 am

    编译体积太大

  20. bxl994 says:
    May 6, 2009 at 3:04 am

    I am a Chinese! ^_^

  21. Liang says:
    May 18, 2009 at 4:08 pm

    1. Multithreading for real-time high-volume system

    2. read serial port for Kiosk app

    3. printJob class can print without show the print dialogue box

  22. Michael says:
    August 21, 2009 at 12:27 am

    1.Multithreading
    2.Running faster than as3
    3.Improve in gc
    4.destruction funtion
    and provide some API for create P2P connection

  23. jackie says:
    February 21, 2010 at 3:26 am

    Please add abstract class and private constructor……..
    and Multithreading

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