Actionscript 3.0 with Flash 8?

[Bootstrap Bill]

Is it possible to use Actionscript 3.0 with Flash 8 (and of course, the Flash Player 8.5)?

Or is Actionscript 3.0 limited to Flex 2.0 beta?

[Scottae]

You have to use Flex, and only the 8.5 player

[hangalot]

what you can do is create all your assets in flash 8 and then use them in a normal actionscript or flex project in flexbuilder2 via the embed tag, unfortunatly you are not able to compile a swf from the flash ide at this stage that supports AS3

[Panzer]

From Adobe, you have to buy Flex 2 builder or upgrade your Flash 8 to Flash 9.

From open source community, you could try haXe compiler, it will almost 'support' AS3, but not AS3 in fact. Of course, several months later after Flex 2 shipping.:D

[hangalot]

haXe currently compiles to avm1 byte code.
plaer 8.5 avm2

[Panzer]

haXe currently compiles to avm1 byte code.
plaer 8.5 avm2

That's why I said 'several months later after Flex 2 shipping'. ;)