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 See Also

[edit] Introduction

ActionScript is a scripting language developed by Macromedia for its Flash animation studio. ActionScript language is pretty close to Java. The newest version ActionScript 3.0 - released together with Flash CS3 - focuses more than ever on OOP (Programming: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, websites, CD-roms. ActionScript is extremely powerful and quite easy to learn.

[edit] Table of Contents

[edit] Part I

• Getting Started
• AS in a Nutshell

[edit] Chapter 1 - Properties

• X, Y Coordinates
• Width, Height Measures
• XScale, YScale
• Visible
• Rotation
• Quality
• Name
• Alpha
• 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] See Also

A Wikiversity course on ActionScript

Actionscript.org

Flash MX 2004 Live Documents

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