[haXe] AS2Haxe Conversion Tool Update

Scott Hyndman scotty.hyndman at gmail.com
Mon Apr 16 22:02:47 CEST 2007


(If this is a dupe I apologize)

Hi all,

I've been really busy, but I've taken some time to work out a new
version of this tool. The previous incarnation was based upon
something else I wrote that really wasn't intended to parse code
properly, so was very prone to error.

I have moved to a parser model (based off of the work done by the guys
on the ASDT project), which in effect compiles AS2 code into HaXe.
This is far less error-prone, but also a bit trickier. The current
version of the tool has some undesirable effects, like  stripping out
comments (this *will* be fixed) and re-arranging the order of fields
and methods in types.

But I think we have the start of a great conversion tool, but at this
point I could _REALLY_ use some help. The code is not very difficult
to understand, and I would be happy to explain it in depth to anyone
who was interested.

If you want to check out the latest version, which comes with all
dependencies and an example project to convert, download it from:

http://code.google.com/p/actionscripttohaxe/downloads/list

By the way, if anyone on the ASDT team is reading this, I'm perfectly
willing to give up all the work I've done (ASANTLRParser does way
more, improved visitor support, full DOM coverage). Also, I think I
may in violation of your license right now (oops!), but I'd be happy
to work that out.

Scott



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