# Announcing Macromedia MX 2004 **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [August 25, 2003, 5:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/announcing-macromedia-mx-2004/29282 "2003-08-25T05:12:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/announcing-macromedia-mx-2004/29282/41 "2003-08-26T20:16:09Z")
i merged two threads lost :beam: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/announcing-macromedia-mx-2004/29282/42 "2003-08-26T20:17:58Z")
> \*Originally posted by ahmed \* > \*\*i merged two threads lost :beam: \*\* ohhh… now it all makes sense:sleep: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/announcing-macromedia-mx-2004/29282/43 "2003-08-26T20:35:01Z")
yay! [http://www.moock.org/blog/archives/000043.html](http://www.moock.org/blog/archives/000043.html) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/announcing-macromedia-mx-2004/29282/44 "2003-08-26T21:10:26Z")
overloading would have been nice :-\ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/announcing-macromedia-mx-2004/29282/45 "2003-08-27T00:56:42Z")
shibby shibby sweet ahmed! thanks for the link, this should be a dozy! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/announcing-macromedia-mx-2004/29282/46 "2003-08-27T03:18:15Z")
> \*Originally posted by senocular \* > \*\*overloading would have been nice :-\ \*\* > yup… I though now that AS 2.0 supports strict datatyping, I was quiet confident overloading would be supported, but nooo, actionscript can’t be perfect ☹ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 3:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/announcing-macromedia-mx-2004/29282/47 "2003-08-27T03:49:25Z")
Guys is anyone excited about Macromedia 2004? check it out [http://macromedia.com/](http://macromedia.com/) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/announcing-macromedia-mx-2004/29282/48 "2003-08-27T03:50:37Z")
[http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32552](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32552) :beam: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/announcing-macromedia-mx-2004/29282/49 "2003-08-27T03:51:10Z")
I merged the threads… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 11:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/announcing-macromedia-mx-2004/29282/50 "2003-08-27T11:08:34Z")
> \*Originally posted by ahmed \* > \*\*yup… I though now that AS 2.0 supports strict datatyping, I was quiet confident overloading would be supported, but nooo, actionscript can’t be perfect ☹ \*\* whats over loading? and, there will be an AS 3.0 :crazy: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/announcing-macromedia-mx-2004/29282/51 "2003-08-27T15:07:19Z")
[http://www.macromedia.com/](http://www.macromedia.com/) nice :snug: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/announcing-macromedia-mx-2004/29282/52 "2003-08-27T15:30:04Z")
> \*Originally posted by [mdipi.com](http://mdipi.com) \* > \*\*whats over loading? and, there will be an AS 3.0 :crazy: \*\* > Basically, what overloading lets you do i have a class with two identical member function whos names are the same, but they take different types of arguments… look at the code below and see if that helps 🙂 ```auto class MyClass { function tracetype ( argument:String ) { trace ( 'the string you entered is: \'' + argument + '\'') } function tracetype ( argument:Number ) { trace ( 'the number you entered is: \'' + argument + '\'') } } ``` If overloading was supported, if you say ```auto MyInstance = new MyClass(); MyInstance.tracetype( 'mike' ); ``` would call the tracetype function that takes in strings and not numbers, and hence will output ‘the \string\ you entered is ‘mike’’… but since overloading is not supported, that script would throw many errors on defining a function twice in your code 🙂 hope that helps 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/announcing-macromedia-mx-2004/29282/53 "2003-08-27T16:03:38Z")
Wow I never knew anything like that existed. That would be nice to be able to do that in AS… bastards! Maybe in the future :shrug: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/announcing-macromedia-mx-2004/29282/54 "2003-08-27T16:07:10Z")
> \*Originally posted by reverendflash \* > \*\*They are doing a demonstration of it and ActionScript2 @ MM : MEETING TIME Wednesday, September 3, 2003 6:30 PM Reception 7:00 PM Presentation Begins MEETING LOCATION Macromedia Headquarters, 1st Floor Conference Room 600 Townsend Street (corner of 7th Street), San Francisco 94103 If I weren’t out of town that day, I’d go… Rev \*\* They are also doing 1 in Fresno, CA along with giving away Studio MX 2004. Here is the site with details. [http://www.ccmmug.org/](http://www.ccmmug.org/) I plan on attending. ---
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ahmed :thumb: i dont understand it but one day :thumb: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/announcing-macromedia-mx-2004/29282/56 "2003-08-28T00:32:00Z")
lol… i knew you wouldn’t 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/announcing-macromedia-mx-2004/29282/57 "2003-08-28T01:08:36Z")
mdipi: Ok… how a function works… function name() - creates a function function name(arguments) - creates a function where you use arguments within it… for example… [AS]function move(x, y){ //using the x argument clipInstanceName.\_x = x; //using the y argument clipInstanceName.\_y = y; } //example usage move(250, 200); //it would move the clip to the coords (250, 200) }[/AS] Now time for ahmeds functions… [AS]function tracetype ( argument:String ) { trace ( ‘the string you entered is: ‘’ + argument + ‘’’) } ``` function tracetype ( argument:Number ) { trace ( 'the number you entered is: '' + argument + ''') }[/AS] ``` Take careful note that both the function names are exactly the same (tracetype). But as you see, the arguments are written differently. One says argument:String and the other says argument:Number. So if this were to actually work, if you call the function and have a string as the argument example (tracetype(“mike”)) then the function with the argument:String as an argument variable will be called, but if you called the function with a number as the argument value (tracetype(255)) then the function with the argument:Number as an argument variable would be called instead of the one with argument:String. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 1:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/announcing-macromedia-mx-2004/29282/58 "2003-08-28T01:25:34Z")
nice explanation… 🙂 thanks for clearing up my point 😉 ---
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Sorry if this sounds dumb, but wouldn’t that just be like creating 2 seperate functions anyway, just giving them the same name? Is there really a point to it or am I missing something? ---
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ok i get it now. lost is good at explaining things :thumb: twitch: say if you didnt know if it were a string or a number, but you wantted your function to stay the same for both you would use that. am i correct? i think thats what you would use it for. [Previous page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/announcing-macromedia-mx-2004/29282.md?page=2) [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/announcing-macromedia-mx-2004/29282.md?page=4)