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haXe 2 Beginner's Guide

You're reading from  haXe 2 Beginner's Guide

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2011
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781849512565
Pages 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

haxe 2
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting to know haXe 2. Basic Syntax and Branching 3. Being Cross-platform with haXe 4. Understanding Types 5. The Dynamic Type and Properties 6. Using and Writing Interfaces, Typedefs, and Enums 7. Communication Between haXe Programs 8. Accessing Databases 9. Templating 10. Interfacing with the Target Platform 11. A Dynamic Website Using JavaScript 12. Creating a Game with haXe and Flash Pop Quiz Answers Index

Platform-specific packages


You've already understood that there are some platform-specific packages, let's have an overview of them.

JavaScript

The platform-specific package for JavaScript is the js package. It basically contains only typedefs representing the DOM and has a layout that's not comparable to any one of the other platform-specific package.

Flash

As we've already mentioned, Flash has two platform-specific packages: the first one is flash and it is used when targeting Flash up to Flash 8, or else, you use the flash9 package (but access it by writing flash). Those packages contain definitions for the external classes that are natives in Flash. Their layouts are not comparable to any other platform-specific packages.

Neko

Neko has its own package named neko . It contains a lot of useful classes allowing for example, sockets communication, file-system access, console input and output, and threads management.

Its layout is comparable to the layouts of the C++ and PHP packages.

PHP

The php...

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