Monday, July 7, 2008
Convoq could have made it.
Monday, July 7, 2008 
Convoq could have made it.
With the Flash tools out today, paired with ActionScript 3.0 and the many speed benefits, our console could have made it. Because we had a contact list built out of movieclips, with tons of nesting (paired down as far as we could), we still suffered hits when scrolling.
We had our own windowing which worked, but was a bit fragile.
Debugging wasn't easy. We made a world-class debugging tool, the likes I have yet to see for AS3 (and yes, that includes the Flex debugger, as good as it is).
Classes weren't really classes, and we prototyped quite a bit.
We could have used Flex containers too to help out us in a big way. And caching. And the AS3 event model kick's AS2 alone.
We could have used AIR for the main application. It would have been a true joy and made us cross-OS. We were PC-only for the desktop client which I always had a problem with.
As I was arm-deep in lots of classes in a project today, I smiled as FlashDevelop guided me along through the many class objects. If we had that tool alone back in the day, we could have saved man months.
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Paul said...“WTF are you talking about?”
