haXe Tutorial

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 | ActionScript 3, tutorials, videos

This tutorial is for anyone who has heard about haXe, but never had the time to figure out how to set it up. If you guys show a lot of interest in learning more about haXe, I’ll put together a few more tutorials on some of the features, but as of right now I have no idea what kind of interest is out there:

Watch the Intro to haXe Video Tutorial

Click to view the video in a pop-up. Right-click and “save as” to download the video to your hard drive.

*note – I tried “fast forwarding” through the download/install portions, but the camtasia “clip speed” couldn’t accurately fast forward only the parts I selected.

BAM5

I heard from a friend that haxe has one syntax, or way to write it, etc, but you can compile to multiple languages so you don't have to go through learning a whole new language. Could you give an example of it in your next tutorial, like php or something?

sebomoto

great intro - would definitely be interested in more tutorials! For example on how to work with swf-libraries or image assets.

Best wishes,
Sebastian

Internetagentur

Thanks for taking the time and putting this tutorial together. Definitely, I'd like to see more of those. Can't wait to get started with haXe...
Thanks!

LoganCale

This tutorial was so helpful. Thank you - Would love to see more HaXe tutorials.

Nick

More please!

Mark Prades

Very interesting tutorial ,it seems Haxe can generate ActionScript3 however i wasn't able to acheive it (with the command line arguments ) , if someone has a tip ...
Thanks

Mike H.

This was an awesome tutorial. It's really a great beginner's tutorial and serves as a great 101 for developing flash with haxe. BTW, developing haxe in other editors, like Notepad++ is not fun. BTW, I like the fact that you're using FlashDevelop. It is a really, really great and robust tool for developing haxe apps.

Thanks again

Nate Chatellier

Great tutorial. I'd love a tutorial really *illustrating* why we should use HaXe over normal AS3. For example, the compiler is supposed to be faster--show us; you say it can give a performance boost--show us; etc...

But definitely a great starting tutorial. Thanks!

Emrah Atılkan

i liked this one, i was looking for something like this so i will start learning, who is the talker on the video

flashmx

awesome. thanks for taking the time to put this intro together. if you have the time it would be great to see some more in depth tutorials on HaXe. i will dig in myself as soon as i find a bit of spare time. thanks again John!

P48l0

I dont see any advantage of using HaXe...

johnlindquist

Check out the language reference for all the features of the language:

http://haxe.org/ref

Also, you get a much faster compiler and the ability the compile to multiple languages (js, php, c++, etc)

Haxe has even shown to give swfs that take advantage of the language a significant performance boost.

Alex

Really great tutorial. Thank you. I'd like to see more HaXe tutorials like these.

I've been playing around with HaXe for a while now but I've never developed any serious projects with it. My main concern is how HaXe will handle third party AS3 API libraries like TweenLite or PaperVision3D.

After this tutorial I think I'll get back to HaXe and try to create something real. I know HaXe is much faster then AS3, so if it can integrate with huge collection of AS3 APIs out there I'll defenitly switch to HaXe.

Once again thank you for the tutorial.

vitaLee

thanks for this one John.
i'm definitely interested in more tutorials on the subject.

David

Great John, please do more.

Derek O'Brien

Thank you, downloading it to watch later. Haxe is something I've been putting off due to time but this will kick start my attempt to finally getting started with it.