ActionScript Programming

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Table of Contents 2.1 Part I 2.1.1 Chapter 1 - Properties 2.1.2 Chapter 2 2.1.3 Chapter 3 – Data types 2.2 Part II 2.2.1 Chapter 4 3 Authors and contributors 4 Contributors 5 See Also

[edit] Introduction

ActionScript is a scripting language developed by Adobe (formerly Macromedia) for its Flash animation studio. ActionScript language is pretty close to JavaScript. The newest version ActionScript 3.0 - released together with Flash CS3 - focuses more than ever on Object oriented programming. ActionScript is a proprietary language designed to control animations as well as create more advanced multimedia and interactive applications such as slide-shows, games, quizzes and tutorials, and websites. ActionScript is extremely powerful and quite easy to learn. Actionscript may be a little difficult to learn at first, but it it will soon get fluent and easy to use.

This tutorial is designed for use with Actionscript 2.0. Changes for ActionScript 3.0 will be listed as well.

[edit] Table of Contents

[edit] Part I

• PartI/Getting_Started
• AS In A Nutshell

[edit] Chapter 1 - Properties

• Page 1:
  • X, Y Coordinates
  • Width, Height Measures
  • XScale, YScale
  • Visible
  • Rotation
  • Quality
  • Name
  • Alpha
• Page 2:
  • XMouse, YMouse
  • CurrentFrame
  • TotalFrames
  • URL
  • Target
  • DropTarget
  • FocusRect
  • FramesLoaded
  • SoundBufTime

[edit] Chapter 2

• Operators (1)
• Comments

[edit] Chapter 3 – Data types

• General and difference between Number and String data types
• String
  • Methods
    • charAt
    • charCodeAt
    • concat
    • fromCharCode
    • indexOf
    • lastIndexOf
    • slice
    • split
    • substr
    • substring
    • toLowerCase
    • toUpperCase
  • Properties
    • length
• Number
  • Methods
    • toStringtoString
    • valueOf
• Boolean
  • Methods
    • toString
    • valueOf
• Date
  • Methods
• Arrays
  • Properties
    • Length
  • Methods
    • concat
    • join
    • pop
    • push
    • reverse
    • shift
    • slice
    • sort
    • sortOn
    • splice
    • toString
    • unshift
• String.split (method)
• Objects
• Scopes of variables
• Global variables
• Timeline variables
• Local variables

[edit] Part II

[edit] Chapter 4

• Conditions/Loops (part 1)
  • If, else if, else
• Operators (part 2)
• Conditions/Loops (part 2)
  • For
  • For .. In

[edit] Authors and contributors

Ruben Vardanyan

[edit] Contributors

Wolf Warrior

[edit] See Also

• A Wikiversity course on ActionScript
• Actionscript.org
• Flash MX 2004 Live Documents
• ActionScript Tutorials
• Flash 8 Live Documents
• osflash - Open source Flash community and projects.
• Ultrashock Forums and Tutorials
• Flash Forum
• Cute Flash Games
• AS Main: List of helpful ActionScript tutorials