Flex2.0, AS3.0, FlashPlayer8.5 - what does this mean to OpenLaszlo?

[negttid]

Recently (Oct, 17th), Macromedia published Flex2 Alpha with ActionScript 3.0 etc.
How is OpenLaszlo effected by these changes? Will there be a new compiler some day?

I really like the lzx/js abstraction layer, offered by OpenLaszlo, but it has to be compiled somehow to a SWF and compile time is a factor.

What do other users think of the recent Flash Evolution?

[javatis]

Hi iam also just a user of Laszlo server....

and iam also interested in those questions may i also should post a link to this thread first:

http://www.laszlosystems.com/developers/community/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4476

but now what i think about that, because iam usualy Macromedia flash (2004 pro / 8 ) dev.

AND iam using laszlo server (still running 3.0.2).

there are a few things that i realy like on the llaszlo server,

1) the ease of wrapping design arround the datas to display from xml files

2) to option to load any kind of image (well ok flash 8 also has this option yet)

but there are also a few things i doesent realy like

1) the compile time!!! its soooooo slow! iam wondering how the dashboard (from samples) is compiled that fast instead of my first apps with only a few components but many datas inside

2) the documentation, i mean try to read about a specific event or attribute.. etc... iam missing examples for those things also the most examples are with Debug.write thats ok but has no use for me to learn how to get datas in that kind of component that i whant to use, i needed to read about the xpath from different sides after searching google that shouldent be the plan! iam may not the all knowing expert but also not realy a beginner and i think especially for ppl that are all new to ECMA them will have realy prblems to learn(in depth) or even gets a complete overview of all posibilitys with this documentation.

3) actually OL has NO way BUILD IN to use a presistant connection AND its not recomends to use AS in swf resources (but i do it that way when i need something from flash thats not implemented yet in OL´s LZX synthax, also when its not recomendet! especially about the presistant connection i have no need for a seperate latency time in my apps by using local connection to a swf in an iframe.)

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when we talk about the AS3.. iam amazed about the posibilitys from my first views espacialy the ways how soundobjects could be treated are a good step forward, AS3 is developing to be a real competetive OOP languge.

but flash like OL has its limits especialy when using big loops, need to load huge amount of (XML)datas or even i recognized often that sometimes the components uses many many resources from flashplayer, those things need an improvement to deliver stable and fast solutions to the endcustomers, but i guess thats rather in macromedia hands than in those of laszlosystem!

Greetz

Sascha
.... which hopes his english is read/understand-able