Hello-world in Flash/Flex

Aug. 3rd, 2006 | 03:19 am

It's a popular misconception that writing applications for the Flash platform is extremely difficult and requires one to use an IDE and be intimately familiar with timeline-based development.

In reality, you can write the most feature-rich Flash applications with just a text editor and a command-line compiler.

Here's what a simple hello-world application looks like in plain Flash (version 9):

package {
  import flash.display.Sprite;
  import flash.text.TextField;

  public class HelloWorld extends Sprite {

    public function HelloWorld() {

      var textField:TextField = new TextField();
      textField.text = "Hello, world!";
      addChild(textField);

      trace("Hello, world!");
    }
  }
}
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