- haXe 2
- haxe 2
- Credits
- Foreword
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Getting to know haXe
- 2. Basic Syntax and Branching
- Modules, packages, and classes
- Constants and its types
- Binary and unary operators
- Blocks
- Variable declaration and scope
- Time for action—Declaring some fields
- Field access and function calls
- Constructing class instance
- Conditional branching
- Loops
- Break and continue
- Time for action—Using the break keyword
- Time for action—Using the continue keyword
- Return
- Exception handling
- Anonymous objects
- Local functions
- Managing a fridge
- Time for action—Managing a fridge
- Summary
- 3. Being Cross-platform with haXe
- What is cross-platform in the library
- Platform-specific packages
- Conditional compilation
- The remap switch
- Coding cross-platform using imports
- Time for action—Welcoming the user on Neko & PHP
- Time for action—Reading from the XML file
- Time for action—Writing to an XML file
- Testing our sample
- Making it cross-platform
- Summary
- 4. Understanding Types
- Explicitly typed variables
- Static typing
- Values with several types
- Representing a blog article
- Time for action—Representing different types of articles
- Function's type
- Anonymous objects
- Creating a function to apply another one
- Time for action—Applying a function on every item
- Type inference
- Casting
- Type parameters
- Extending the fridge
- Time for action—A fridge with constraints
- Summary
- 5. The Dynamic Type and Properties
- Freeing yourself from the typing system
- Time for action—Assigning to Dynamic variables
- Time for action—Assigning from Dynamic variables
- Parameterized Dynamic class
- Classes implementing Dynamic
- Time for action—Implementing a non-parameterized Dynamic
- Time for action—Implementing a parameterized Dynamic
- Using a resolve function when implementing Dynamic
- Time for action—Writing our Component class
- Time for action—Parsing the configuration file
- Time for action—Testing our parser
- Time for action—Writing the configuration file
- Time for action—Testing the writer
- The dot-notation
- Thoughts on writing our parser
- The dynamic keyword
- Warning
- Properties in classes
- Summary
- 6. Using and Writing Interfaces, Typedefs, and Enums
- 7. Communication Between haXe Programs
- 8. Accessing Databases
- Connecting to databases
- The SPOD
- A concrete example of SPOD use
- The Manager
- Handling relations
- Creating a blogging system
- Time for action—Creating the Users table
- Time for action—Creating the User class
- Time for action—Creating the Posts table
- Time for action—Creating the Post class
- Time for action—Creating the connection to the database
- Time for action—Listing posts
- Time for action—Listing users
- Time for action—Adding a user
- Time for action—Adding a post
- Time for action—Branching it with the main function
- Summary
- 9. Templating
- Introduction to the haxe.Template class
- Time for action—Executing code from a template
- Integrating subtemplates
- Creating a blog's front page
- Time for action—Creating our SPOD class
- Time for action—Connecting to the database
- Time for action—Creating our template
- Time for action—Reading the template from resources
- Time for action—Executing the template
- Time for action—Testing the result
- Summary
- 10. Interfacing with the Target Platform
- 11. A Dynamic Website Using JavaScript
- Manipulating the DOM
- Time for action—Using events from the DOM level 0
- Time for action—Using DOM level 2 events
- Time for action—Working around by storing reference to functions
- Time for action—Setting up the model
- Time for action—Setting up our view
- Time for action—Setting up the controller
- Time for action—Creating a computer view
- The main class
- Summary
- 12. Creating a Game with haXe and Flash
- Embedding assets
- Time for action—Installing SWFMILL
- Time for action—Creating a library
- Time for action—Using assets
- Event handling
- Time for action—Drawing the character
- Time for action—Handling moves
- Time for action—Moving the character
- Time for action—Adding balls
- Time for action—Updating the position
- Time for action—Detecting collisions
- Summary
- A. Pop quiz—Answers
- Chapter 1: Getting to know haXe
- Chapter 3: Being Cross-platform with haXe
- Chapter 4: Understanding Types
- Chapter 5: The Dynamic Type and Properties
- Chapter 6: Using and Writing Interfaces, Typedefs, and Enums
- Chapter 7: Communication Between haXe Programs
- Chapter 8: Accessing Databases
- Chapter 9: Templating
- Chapter 10: Interfacing with the Target Platform
- Chapter 12: Creating a Game with haXe and Flash
In order to run the code from this book, you will need the following:
- The haXe compiler
- The Neko runtime (it is installed with haXe if you use the haXe installer)
- A PHP capable web server (you can use solutions such as WAMP/XAMP on Windows or MAMP on MacOSX)
- A MySQL server (included in solutions named before)
- SWFMill (http://swfmill.org/):
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