Essential Actionscript 3.0

ActionScript 3.0 is a huge upgrade to Flash's programming language. It's faster, cleaner, and more sophisticated than its predecessors. Only essential ActionScript 3.0 offers the plain, careful language you need to understand every major ActionScript 3.0 concept. And only essential ActionScript 3.0 provides the depth you need to realize ActionScript 3.0's full potential.

This is a true developer's handbook, packed with practical explanations, insightful warnings, and thousands of code examples that demonstrate how to get the job done right. Within this book you'll find:

- Exhaustive coverage of the core ActionScript language, including obeject0oriented programming, classes, objects, variables, methods, functions. Inheritance, datatypes, arrays, events, exceptions, scope, namespaces, XML, and security.
- A deep exploration of visual and interactive programming topics, such as the display API, hierarchical event handling, mouse and keyboard interactivity, animation, vector graphics, bitmap graphics, text, and content-loading operations
- Applied advice on code-production issues, such as combining ActionScript with assets created manually in the Flash authoring tool, using the Flex framework in flex Builder 2, and creating reusable code libraries